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Which technologies shall not be granted the patent right?

Updated: 2014-12-28
(sipa.gov.cn)

(1) Substances obtained by means of nuclear transformation.

(2) Invention-creations in violation of national laws, social moralities or public interests such as tools for drugging

(3)Technologies in violation of scientific laws, such as ever-active machines

(4) Scientific discoveries; ①discovery of new stars ②discovery of natural scientific theorem, laws, etc, such as Newton’s Law of Gravity

(5) Rules and methods for mental activities such as the method of playing a new type of chess

(6) Methods for the diagnosis or for the treatment of diseases;

(7) New varieties of animals and plants (China has specialized acts for the protection of varieties of animals and plants)

(8)Designs of two-dimensional printing goods,made of the pattern,the color or the combination of the two,which serve mainly as indicator.

(9)No patent right shall be granted for any invention-creation where acquisition or use of the genetic resources,on which the development of the invention-creation relies,is not consistent with the provision of the laws or administrative regulations.