Patents Act 1977

[F1 11 U.K. In this Schedule:

• “essentially biological process” means a process for the production of animals and plants which consists entirely of natural phenomena such as crossing and selection;

• “microbiological process” means any process involving or performed upon or resulting in microbiological material;

• “plant variety” means a plant grouping within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, which grouping can be:

  (a)

  defined by the expression of the characteristics that results from a given genotype or combination of genotypes; and

  (b)

  distinguished from any other plant grouping by the expression of at least one of the said characteristics; and

  (c)

  considered as a unit with regard to its suitability for being propagated unchanged.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. A2 inserted (28.7.2000) by 2000/2037, reg. 8(2), Sch. 2