ANNEX TO EXPLANATORY NOTES: PATENTS ACT 2004:AMENDMENTS TO THE PATENTS ACT 1977 Section 1 – Patentable inventions
(1)A patent may be granted only for an invention in respect of which the following conditions are satisfied, that is to say –
(a)the invention is new;
(b)it involves an inventive step;
(c)it is capable of industrial application;
(d)the grant of a patent for it is not excluded by subsections (2) and (3) or section 4A below;
and references in this Act to a patentable invention shall be construed accordingly.
[ Subsections (2) to (5) are unchanged ]