EU Commission says plants and animals derived from conventional breeding should be regarded as non-patentable
European governments need to ensure new rules of interpretation become legally binding
3 November 2016 / In a long awaited explanatory statement, the EU Commission takes the view that plants and animals that are obtained by means of “essentially biological” breeding are non-patentable. This statement is in strong contradiction to the current practice of the European Patent Office (EPO), which has already granted more than 100 patents on conventional breeding, e.g. on tomatoes and broccoli.
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