Strasbourg, 30/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - The EU should avoid granting patents to varieties obtained through traditional methods of selection, was the general view among EU agriculture ministers at their working lunch on the sidelines of the Council in Luxembourg on Thursday 22 October.
The discussion followed on from a decision by the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the European Patents Office (EPO) at the end of March approving the patent application for varieties of broccoli and tomato...