Section 9b

If the proprietor of a patent or a third party having the consent of the proprietor of the patent puts into circulation, in the territory of a Member State of the European Union or in a Contracting Party of the Agreement on the European Economic Area, biological material which possesses specific characteristics as a result of the invention and if further biological material is obtained from this biological material through propagation or multiplication, the effects of section 9 have no effect where the propagation or multiplication of the biological material was the purpose for which it was put into circulation. This does not apply where the material obtained in this way is subsequently used for further propagation or multiplication.