The protection conferred by a patent relating to a biological material endowed, as a result of the invention, with specific properties extends to any biological material obtained from that biological material by reproduction or multiplication and endowed with those same properties.
The protection conferred by a patent relating to a process for producing a biological material endowed, as a result of the invention, with specific properties extends to the biological material directly obtained by that process and to any other biological material obtained from the latter by reproduction or multiplication and endowed with those same properties.
The protection conferred by a patent relating to a biological material endowed, as a result of the invention, with specific properties does not extend to biological materials endowed with those specific properties, obtained independently of the patented biological material and by an essentially biological process, or to biological materials obtained from the latter, by reproduction or multiplication.