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1996
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Patents Amendment Bill 1996
No. , 1996
(Senator Stott Despoja)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Patents Act 1990, and for related purposes
Contents
A Bill for an Act to amend the Patents Act 1990, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act may be cited as the Patents Amendment Act 1996.
This Act commences on the day on
10which it receives the Royal Assent.
The Acts specified in the Schedules are amended in accordance with the applicable items in the Schedules, and the other items in the Schedules have effect according to their terms.
1 At the end of section 18
Add:
(3) The following are not to be regarded as possessing the quality of novelty or inventiveness for the purposes of this section:
(a) naturally occurring genes; or
(b) naturally occurring gene sequences; or
(c) descriptions of the base sequence of a naturally occurring gene or a naturally occurring gene sequence.
Schedule 1 Amendment of the Patents Act 1990
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