Legislative Implementation of Flexibilities - United Republic of Tanzania

Title:	Section 3 (1) (vi) and (vii) of the Industrial Property Act No. 4 of 28/03/2008
Field of IP:	Patents
Type of flexibility:	Exclusion from patentability of plants
Summary table:

Provisions of Law

Matters excluded from patent protection.

3. (I) The following shall be excluded from patent protection:

(vi) plants and animals. including their parts, including DNA, cells, seeds, varieties and species other than micro-organisms, and essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals and their parts, other than non-biological and microbiological processes;

(vii) animal and plant varieties;