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Chapter V – Biotechnological inventions

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Rule 34 – New deposit of biological material

Rule 26 – General and definitions
Rule 27 – Patentable biotechnological inventions
Rule 28 – Exceptions to patentability
Rule 29 – The human body and its elements
Rule 30 – Requirements of European patent applications relating to nucleotide and amino acid sequences
Rule 31 – Deposit of biological material
Rule 32 – Expert solution
Rule 33 – Availability of biological material
Rule 34 – New deposit of biological material

Rule 3449
New deposit of biological material

Part II – Implementing Regulations to Part II of the Convention
Chapter V – Biotechnological inventions

If biological material deposited in accordance with Rule 31 ceases to be available from the recognised depositary institution, an interruption in availability shall be deemed not to have occurred if a new deposit of that material is made with a recognised depositary institution on the same terms as those laid down in the Budapest Treaty on the International Recognition of the Deposit of Microorganisms for the Purposes of Patent Procedure of 28 April 1977, and if a copy of the receipt of the new deposit issued by the depositary institution is forwarded to the European Patent Office within four months of the date of the new deposit, stating the number of the European patent application or of the European patent.


49See notice from the EPO of 07.07.2010 (OJ EPO 2010, 498).

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