Legal analysis: Situations that cannot be applied for when applying for patents include: scientific discoveries; methods of diagnosis and treatment of diseases; animal and plant varieties; substances obtained by nuclear transformation methods, etc. A patent is generally a document issued upon application by a government agency or a regional organization representing several countries. This document records the content of an invention.
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