Unión Europea

Emiratos Árabes Unidos

Patentes (incluida la protección de variedades vegetales)

28. Please describe how micro-organisms, non-essentially biological processes, microbiological processes and plant varieties are protected in your legislation. Please explain, in this respect, the relevant sections of your legislation.

Micro-organisms, microbiological processes are protected under the Patent Law which mentions in its Article 6 that the microbiological processes and products thereof are excepted from the category of the inventions excluded from the patentability as mentioned in the answer to the question no. 27.