16. Industrial application

(1)

Subject to subsection (2), an invention shall be taken to be capable of industrial application if it can be made or used in any kind of industry, including agriculture.

(2)

An invention of a method of treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy or of diagnosis practised on the human or animal body shall not be taken to be capable of industrial application.

(3)

Subsection (2) shall not prevent a product consisting of a substance or composition from being treated as capable of industrial application merely because it is invented for use in any such method.

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16. Industrial application

Right to Apply for and Obtain Patent

Applications for Patents

Procedure for Grant of Patent

Provisions as to Patents After Grant

Property in Patents and Applications for Patents and Registration

Employees’ Inventions

Contracts as to Patented Products

Licences of Right and Compulsory Licences

Use of Patented Inventions for Services of Government

Infringement of Patents

Revocation of Patents and Validity Proceedings

Amendments of Patents and Applications

International Applications for Patents

Legal Proceedings

Offences

Patent Agents

General

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