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20.08.2011 | permalink
New patent granted to Bayer on convential plant breeding breaks the law
The European Patent Office in Munich has recently granted a patent for the German company Bayer for breeding plants with a higher stress tolerance (EP1616013). The comprehensive patent will give Bayer monopoly control over important food crops including both genetic engineering in plants and the process for conventional breeding and plants derived thereof. [...] “This new patent for Bayer breaks the law. It conflicts in particular with the prohibition of patents on essentially biological’ processes for breeding.”