Can an invention involving animals be patented?
The living world: how to protect plant and animal inventions?
Practical sheet REF: FIC1646 V1
Can an invention involving animals be patented?
The living world: how to protect plant and animal inventions?

Author : Virginie BRUNOT

Publication date: December 10, 2017 | Lire en français

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1. Can an invention involving animals be patented?

1.1 Principle

Characterized by a capacity to express emotions and have complex reactions, animal life, like human life, raises ethical and moral considerations. (cf. Living matter: treatment methods, the human body... what can be patented? [FIC 1645] ).

This is why the law lays down specific rules concerning the patentability of inventions involving animals. For example,

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