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No Patents On Seeds

Informations de fond

Please find a few selected documents and articles as general background to the question of patentability of plants and animals.

Seed monopolists increasingly gaining market control

A Report published by the No Patents on Seeds Coalition in March 2011

The Legal Basis

EPC and EU Biotech Patents Directive 98/44/EC

The Future of Seeds and Food

A Report published by the No Patents on Seeds Coalition in April 2009

Farm Animals and Corporate Patent Strategies

An overview by Greenpeace, Christoph Then, February 2007

Livestock genetics Companies

Concentration and Proprietory Strategies of an emerging power in the global food economy.