What is not considered an invention in Brazil:

Non-patentable Matters

Did you know that some materials cannot be patented in Brazil?

These matters are provided for in articles 10 and 18 of the Industrial Property Law (IPL)

What is not an invention? (Art. 10 of LPI)

What is not patentable? (Art. 18 of LPI)

And what is not considered an invention?

I – discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods

II – purely abstract conceptions

III – commercial, accounting, financial, educational, advertising, prize draw and supervisory schemes, plans, principles or methods

IV – literary, architectural, artistic and scientific works or any aesthetic creation

V – computer programs

VI – information presentation

VII – game rules

VIII – operative and surgical techniques and methods, as well as therapeutic or diagnostic methods for application to the human or animal body; and

IX – all or part of natural living beings and biological materials found in or isolated from nature

And what is not patentable?

I – What is contrary to public morals, safety, order and public health

II – substances, materials, mixtures, elements or products of any kind, as well as the modification of their properties

III – all or part of living things except transgenic microorganisms that meet the three patentability requirements

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