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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-44/article-9",
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  "legislation": "eudr/1998/44",
  "legislation_title": "DIRECTIVE 98/44/EC OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1998-44",
  "path": "article/9",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The protection conferred by a patent on a product containing or consisting of genetic information shall extend to all material, save as provided in Article 5(1), in which the product in incorporated and in which the genetic information is contained and performs its function.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1998/44/article/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:07.267943+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}