"Biotechnological inventions" are inventions which concern a product consisting of or containing biological material or a process by means of which biological material is produced, processed or used. "Biological material" means any material containing genetic information and capable of reproducing itself or being reproduced in a biological system.[Rule 26(2); Rule 26(3); ]
Source: http://www.epo.org/law-practice/legal-texts/html/guidelines/e/g_ii_5_1.htm
Date retrieved: 17 May 2021