Edited by GRAIN

February, 1998

History: Law Order No. 2385 was issued by the French High Commission in 1924 and amended by Lebanese law of 1946. Lebanon is not a WTO member.

Membership: WIPO, Paris

Provisions until now: The only exclusions related to biodiversity are those on inventions evidently contrary to public morality and pharmaceutical formula and compounds.

SOURCE Alan Jacobs (ed.), Patents Throughout the World, Clark, Boardman & Callaghan, New York , Release #53, March 1996.