Section 6, The Patents and Industrial Design Act, 2012

The following shall not be regarded as inventions for thepurposes of patent protection:- (a) discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods; (b) schemes, rules or methods for doing business, performing purely mental acts or playing games; (c) methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy, as well as diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal body; this provision shall not apply to products for use in any of these methods; (d) inventions the commercial exploitation of which would be contrary to public order, morality, public health and safety, principles of humanity and environmental conservation; (e) plants and animals other than microorganisms; (f) biological processes for the protection of plants or animals other than non-biological and micro-biological processes; and (g) plant varieties. PART III - RIGHT TO PATENT AND NAMING OF INVENTOR