European Patent Office rejects bid to revoke first plant patent
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The European Patent Office (EPO) ruled in Jun 1992 that Lubrizol Corp could retain Europe's first plant patent. EPO awarded the patent to Lubrizol, a US-based biotechnology company, for any transgenic plant yielded by a plant cell transfected with a plant gene using the agrobacterium T-DNA as the gene-transfer system. Industrialists, environmentalists and farmers had objected to the patent for several reasons including whether EPO has the right to allow patents on living things.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1992
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Europe's life patent moratorium may go...
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The approval of a new European Union directive on biotechnological inventions is likely to result in the European Patent Office (EPO) lifting a moratorium on the patenting of animals and plants. The new directive states that elements of the human body are not patentable, although isolated human genes and transgenic plants and animals can be patented. Hundreds of applications on animals and plants are pending with the EPO, which is expected to use the new directive as guidance.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1998
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EPO verdict lifts patent coverage of seeds
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The European Patent Office, rules that a patent to the Belgian company, Plant Genetics Systems and its US counterpart Biogen Inc., on a production of herbicide-resistant plants through genetic engineering will not include the plants and seeds. Greenpeace, which challenged the patent, claims victory upon the legal decision that rules against patenting life forms. This ruling will have a significant impact on patents granted on genetically engineered plants.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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