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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10094
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice

Patents on genetic sequences are protected insofar as genetic information IS currently performing functions described in patents

Brussels, 09/03/2010 (Agence Europe) - According to his conclusions published on Tuesday 9 March in Case C-428/08 (Monsanto Technology LLC/Cefetra BV e. a.), Advocate General Paolo Mengozzi suggests to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) that it should rule that a patent relating to genetic sequence be protected in situations where the genetic information is currently performing the functions described in the said patent. This is the first time that the ECJ has been called on to interpret...

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