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- 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.