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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7672

9 March 2000
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/ep/biotechnology
MEPs from EPP Group write to European Patent Office demanding measures to prevent a repeat of the error leading to the grant of a patent for a human cloning process

Brussels, 08/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - Indignant over the error that led the European Patent Office in Münich to issue a patent for a process for the genetic modification of human embryos that could lead to human cloning (see EUROPE of 23 February, page 12), some 40 Christian Democrat and Conservative Members of the European Parliament have written to the President of the Office, Ingo Kober, to express regret over an incident they consider extremely serious and to ask that all necessary...

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