25/03/2019 (Agence Europe) – In a report published on Monday 25 March, the coalition of environmental NGOs ‘No Patents on Seeds’ criticised the “legal chaos” reigning at the European Patent Office (EPO) regarding the granting of patents on living organisms that are the result of conventional breeding without the use of genetic engineering. More specifically, the coalition has criticised the fact that the ban on patenting plants that are produced by what essentially amounts to...