# Patents Act 1977, Paragraph 7


The protection conferred by a patent on a biological material possessing specific characteristics as a result of the invention shall extend to any biological material derived from that biological material through propagation or multiplication in an identical or divergent form and possessing those same characteristics.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/37/schedule/A2/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/patents-act-1977/schedule-A2/paragraph-7
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