"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 39.1(ii); Rule 67.1(ii); OJ EPO 2017, A115; OJ EPO 2018, A24; ]
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Date retrieved: 17 May 2021