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page 25  - Methods of surgical or therapeutic treatment for the human or animal body, as well as diagnostic methods applied to the human or animal body; this provision shall not apply to products used for the implementation of one of these methods; - Natural substances, even if they are purified, synthesized or isolated in another manner; this provision shall not apply to processes used to isolate these natural substances from their original environment; - Known substances for which a new utilization has been discovered; - Plants and animals, including parts thereof, other than microorganisms, and essentially biological processes for breeding plants or animals or parts thereof, other than non-biological and microbiological processes; - Animal breeds and plant varieties; - Registration certificates for utility models whose exploitation is contrary to public order or morality, it being understood that the exploitation of said certificate is not contrary to public order or morality owing to the sole fact that such exploitation is prohibited by legislation; - Pharmaceutical products, up until January 1, 2016. Article 114: The provisions of Article 113 shall not apply: - to process certificates which consist in full or in part of procedures performed by a computer and run by a computer program; - to product certificates consisting of elements of an invention implemented by a computer, in particular a machine-readable decipherable computer code stored on a material medium such as a computer diskette or hard drive or computer memory and a universal calculator, whose novelty in relation to prior art primarily stems from its combination with a specific software. It is understood that persons applying for a utility model certificate linked to the computers in question have waived their right to any copyright protection. Chapter III: Applications for registration certificates for utility models Section 1. Filing of applications for registration Article 115: Applications for registration certificates for utility models shall be filed with the Industrial Property Director. They shall comprise a request, a description, one or more claims, one or more drawings, as the case may be, and an abstract. Filing of the application shall be subject to payment of the prescribed fee.

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