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An invention shall be considered to be industrially applicable if it can be made or
used in any kind of industry, including agriculture.
Article 26
The following shall not be considered inventions:
(a) naturally occurring discoveries, substances, materials and organisms, as well as
parts or elements thereof;
(b) scientific theories and mathematical methods;
(c) the human body and the materials that make up the human body, at the various
stages of its constitution and development, as well as the elements thereof, including
the sequence or partial sequence of a gene;
(d) essentially biological processes for the production of plants and animals;
(e) literary and artistic works or any other esthetic creation;
(f) schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing
business;
(g) computer programs;
(h) presentations of information.
Article 27
The following may not be patented:
(a) plants and animals other than micro-organisms;
(b) methods of diagnostic or surgical or therapeutic treatment for the human or
animal body;
(c) inventions, the commercial working or implementation of which would be contrary
to public order or morality, or would infringe upon the health or life of people, animals,
plants or the environment.
Article 28
The provision of Article 27 (b) shall not apply to products, particularly substances or
compositions, for the implementation of one of these methods.