Patents

The following shall not be regarded as inventions:

(a) discoveries, and scientific and mathematical theories;
(b) plant or animal varieties or essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals, other than microbiological and the products of such processes;
(c) schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games;
(d) methods for the treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, as well as diagnostic methods; but shall not apply to products for use in any of those methods;
(e) more presentation of information.

An invention is patentable if it is new, involves an inventive step and is industrially applicable.