§ Mr. BakerTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what is her policy on the patenting of life forms. [2844]
§ Mr. BattleApart from the exclusion of plant and animal varieties from patentability, current United Kingdom patent law permits the patenting of life forms.
469WSuch inventions are considered against the same general criteria of novelty, inventive step and industrial applicability applied to all fields of technology.