(1) Patent means the title granted to protect an invention.
(2) Invention means an idea of an inventor which permits in practice the solution to a
specific problem in the field of technology.
(3) An invention may be, or may relate to, a product or a process.
Section 2—Matter Excluded from Patent Protection.
The following inventions, even if they are inventions within the meaning of section 1, are
excluded from patent protection:
(a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
(b) schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or
playing games;
(c) methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, as well as
diagnostic methods practised on the human or animal body; this provision shall not apply
to products for use in any of those methods.
(d) inventions, the prevention within the country of the commercial exploitation of which
is necessary to protect public order or morality, which includes:
(i) the protection of human, animal or plant life or health; or
(ii) the avoidance of serious prejudice to the environment; if the exclusion is not made
because the exploitation is prohibited,
(e) plants and animals other than micro-organisms;
(f) biological processes for the protection of plants or animals other than non-biological
and micro-biological processes; and
(g) plant varieties.
Section 3—Patentable Inventions.
(1) An invention is patentable if it is new, involves an inventive step and is industrially
applicable.
(2) An invention is new if it is not anticipated by a prior art.
(3) Prior art shall consist of everything disclosed to the public, anywhere in the world, by
publication in tangible form or by oral disclosure, by use or in any other way, prior to the
filing or, where appropriate, the priority date, of the application claiming the invention.