Brussels, 22/07/2005 (Agence Europe) Last week, the European Commission adopted a second report (COM (2005) 312) at Council and the European Parliament on the development and implications of patents in the field of biotechnology and genetic engineering. It answers the requirements of article 16, point C of the European directive of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions. This document relates recent relevant events which have occurred since the publication of the...