Invention Patentable.
Section 7
SEC. 7. Invention Patentable.—Any invention of a new and useful machine, manufactured product or substance, process, or an improvement of any of the foregoing, shall be patentable.
RA 165 CHAPTER II.—Inventions Patentable
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Inventions not patentable.
Section 8
SEC. 8. Inventions not patentable.—An invention shall not be patentable if it is contrary to the public order or morals, or to the public health or welfare, or if it constitutes a mere idea, scientific principle or abstract theorem not embodied in an invention as specified in section seven hereof, or any process not directed to the making or improving of a commercial product.
Invention not considered new or patentable.
Section 9
SEC. 9. Invention not considered new or patentable.—An invention shall be considered new or capable of being patented if it was known or used by others in the Philippines before the invention thereof by the inventor named in a application for patent for the invention; or if it was patented or described in any printed publication in the Philippines or any foreign country more than one year before the application for patent therefor; or if it had been in public use or on sale in the Philippines for more than one year before the application for a patent therefor; or if it is the subject matter of a validly issued patent in the Philippines granted on an application for patent therefor.
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