SCHEDULES

F1SCHEDULE A2 BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTIONS

Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
F1

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

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The following are not patentable inventions—

a

the human body, at the various stages of its formation and development, and the simple discovery of one of its elements, including the sequence or partial sequence of a gene;

b

processes for cloning human beings;

c

processes for modifying the germ line genetic identity of human beings;

d

uses of human embyos for industrial or commercial purposes;

e

processes for modifying the genetic identity of animals which are likely to cause them suffering without any substantial medical benefit to man or animal, and also animals resulting from such processes;

f

any variety of animal or plant or any essentially biological process for the production of animals or plants, not being a micro-biological or other technical process or the product of such a process.