Patents (Amendment) Act 2006

Exceptions to patentability (section 10 of Principal Act).

4.— Section 10 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) in paragraph (a), by substituting “commercial exploitation” for “publication or exploitation”,

(b) in paragraph (b), by substituting “thereof;” for “thereof.”,

(c) by inserting the following after paragraph (b):

“(c) a method for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and a diagnostic method practised on the human or animal body.”,

(d) by renumbering the existing provision as subsection (1) of that section, and

(e) by inserting the following:

“(2) Subsection (1)(c) shall not apply to products, in particular substances or compositions, for use in any such method.”.