Schedule A2, paragraph 5
PA 1977
Patents Act 1977 · United Kingdom
An element isolated from the human body or otherwise produced by means of a technical process, including the sequence or partial sequence of a gene, may constitute a patentable invention, even if the structure of that element is identical to that of a natural element.
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