A number of organisations, including the No Patents on Seeds coalition, European Coordination Via Campesina and the European Seed Association (ESA) have welcomed the clarification given by the European Commission on 3 November on patents on plants and animals obtained by biological processes of selection (see EUROPE 11422).
In March 2015, the European Patents Office (EPO) granted Plant Bioscience patents for the development of characteristics present in certain types of broccoli and...