Scope of Protection

Article 5/A - Patentable biotechnological inventions

(1) Inventions meeting the requirements of Article 1 to 5 shall be patentable even if they concern a product consisting of or containing biological material or a process by means of which biological material is produced, processed or used. Biological material means any material containing genetic information which is capable of reproducing itself or being reproduced in a biological system.
(2) Biological material which is isolated from its natural environment or produced by means of a technical process may be the subject of an invention even if it previously occurred in nature.