(1) Patents are granted for inventions in all fields of technology, provided that they are new, involve an inventive step and are susceptible of industrial application.

(2) Patents are for inventions within the meaning of paragraph 1 also be granted, when a product, the biological material consists of or contains, or when a process, is produced or processed by the biological material or to which it is used, have as their object. Biological material, which is isolated or produced by means of a technological process of its natural environment, also may be the subject of an invention, if it previously occurred in nature.

(3) As inventions within the meaning of paragraph 1 particular shall not be regarded:

1.

Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;

2.

aesthetic creations;

3.

Plans, Rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business, and programs for computers;

4.

presentations of information.

(4) Paragraph 3 shall exclude patentability of opposed only to the extent, as demand for the subject-matter or activities as such protection is.