What are the circumstances in which you cannot apply for a patent?

Patent rights will not be granted for inventions and creations that violate the law, social ethics or harm public interests. No patent rights will be granted for inventions and creations that are obtained or utilized in violation of laws and administrative regulations and relied on such genetic resources. No patent rights are granted for the following items: (1) Scientific discoveries; (2) Rules and methods of intellectual activities; (3) Diagnosis and treatment methods of diseases; (4) Animal and plant varieties; (5) Transformation with atomic nuclei Substances obtained by other methods; (6) Designs made on the patterns, colors, or a combination of the two on flat printed matter that serve primarily as identification functions.