Subject matter not eligible for legal protection

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For inventions only –

  • discoveries, as well as scientific theories and mathematical methods;

  • solutions concerning only the outward appearance of articles and aimed at satisfying aesthetic needs;

  • rules and methods of games, or of intellectual or economic activity;

  • computer programs;

  • solutions consisting solely in the presentation of information.

Legal protection as inventions and utility models is not granted to:

  • solutions concerning only the outward appearance of articles and aimed at satisfying aesthetic needs;

  • topographies of integrated circuits;

  • solutions contrary to the public interest or to the principles of humanity and morality.

The following solutions are not recognised as patentable industrial designs:

  • those dictated exclusively by the technical function of the article;

  • those relating to objects of architecture (except small architectural forms), industrial, hydraulic engineering and other stationary structures;

  • those relating to objects of unstable form made of liquid, gaseous, loose or similar substances;

  • those relating to articles contrary to the public interest or to the principles of humanity and morality.

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