MALTESE PATENT SYSTEM

An invention shall be patentable if it is novel, involves an inventive step and is industrially applicable.

What may not be patented?

• discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;
  aesthetic creations;

• schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts, playing games or doing business and programs for computers;

• presentations of information;

• a method for the treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or therapy and a diagnostic method practiced on the human or animal body;

• an invention the exploitation of which would be contrary to public order or morality.