Exclusions from Patentable Subject Matter - India

The exclusion from Patentable Subject Matter for India Patent Office are:

1. Inventions which are frivolous or obviously contrary to well established natural law.
2. Inventions use or commercial exploitation of which is contrary to law or morality or causes serious prejudice to human, animal, or plant life or health or to the environment.
3. Discoveries of a scientific principle or formulation of an abstract theory or discovery of any living thing or non- living substance occurring in nature.
4. Mere discovery of a new form of a known substance which does not enhance known efficacy, or the mere discovery of any new property or new use for a known substance or of the mere use of a known process, machine or apparatus unless such known process results in a new product or employs at least one new reactant.
5. Substance obtained by a mere admixture resulting only in the aggregation of the properties of the components thereof or a process for producing such substance.
6. Mere arrangement or re-arrangement or duplication of known devices each functioning independently in a known way.
7. Agricultural and horticultural methods.
8. Any processes for medicinal, surgical, curative, prophylactic , diagnostic, therapeutic or other treatments of humans or any process for a similar treatments of animals or plants to render them free of disease or increase economic value.
9. Plants and animals in whole or any part thereof other than microorganisms, but including seeds, varieties and species and essentially biological processes for production or propagation of plants and animals.
10. Mathematical or business method or a computer program per se or algorithms.
11. Literary, dramatic, musical or artistic work or any other aesthetic creation whatever.
12. Mere scheme or rule or method of performing mental act or method of playing game.
13. Presentation of information.
14. Topography of integrated circuits.
15. Invention which, in effect, is traditional knowledge or which is an aggregation or duplication of known properties of traditionally known component(s).
16. Inventions relating to atomic energy.