Patents Act 1977

Valid from 28/07/2000

[F17U.K.The protection conferred by a patent on a biological material possessing specific characteristics as a result of the invention shall extend to any biological material derived from that biological material through propagation or multiplication in an identical or divergent form and possessing those same characteristics.]

Textual Amendments

F1Sch. A2 inserted (28.7.2000) by 2000/2037, reg. 8(2), Sch. 2