What subject matters shall not be protected as inventions?
ELITE: According to Article 59 of the Law on Intellectual Property in 2005 (Amended and supplemented in 2009, 2019, 2022), The following subject matters shall not be protected as inventions:
– Scientific discoveries or theories, mathematical methods;
– Schemes, plans, rules, and methods for performing mental acts, training domestic animals, playing games, doing business; computer programs;
– Presentations of information;
– Solutions of aesthetical characteristics only;
– Plant varieties, animal breeds;
– Processes of plant or animal production which are principally of a biological nature other than microbiological ones;
– Human and animal disease prevention, diagnostic and treatment methods.
