diff --git a/sympy/polys/polyutils.py b/sympy/polys/polyutils.py
index 6e70a5572f73..d03b2923307b 100644
--- a/sympy/polys/polyutils.py
+++ b/sympy/polys/polyutils.py
@@ -470,7 +470,7 @@ def __getstate__(self, cls=None):
 
         # Get all data that should be stored from super classes
         for c in cls.__bases__:
-            if hasattr(c, "__getstate__"):
+            if c is not object and hasattr(c, "__getstate__"):
                 d.update(c.__getstate__(self, c))
 
         # Get all information that should be stored from cls and return the dict