Act 3 Industrial Property Act 2014 (2) Subject to subsection (3), an invention may be, or may relate to, a product or a process. (3) The following shall not be regarded as inventions and shall be excluded from 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) diagnostic, therapeutic and surgical methods for the treatment of humans or animals; (d) mere presentation of information; (e) plants and animals other than micro-organisms, and essentially biological processes for the production of plants or animals other than non-biological and micro-biological processes; and (f) pharmaceutical products and test data until 1st January 2016 or such other period as may be granted to Uganda or least developed countries by the Council responsible for administering the Agreement on trade related aspects of intellectual property under the World Trade Organization; (g) natural substances, whether purified, synthesized or otherwise isolated from nature; except the processes of isolating those natural substances from their original environment; and (h) the human body and all its elements in whole or in part. 13