Activities

2021-11-25 Call for a ministerial conference

2021-10-13 Handover of 38 empty beer bottles to the European Patent Office

2021-03-22 Handover of more than 180.000 signatures to the European Patent Office

2021-03-11 Freedom for seeds!

2020-12-14 Petition against patent monopolies on seeds!

2019-10-01 Statements to Enlarged Board of Appeal

2019-06-26 Opposition against "salmon patent" handed over to European Patent Office

2019-03-27 Demonstration: Hands off our food plants!

2019-01-24 To the President of the European Patent Office (EPO), Mr António Campinos

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2018-10-02 Actions against patents on barley and beer

Action by „No Patents on Seeds“ on October 2nd, 2018 at Hackerbrücke, Munich

2018-06-14 Stop 'Baysanto' from monopolising seeds!

2017-06-07 One last round of free beer!

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2016-06-29 800.000 signatures against patents on plants and animals

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2016-05-12 65.000 file opposition against Syngenta patent on tomatoes

2014-10-27 Freedom for Broccoli and Tomato!

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2014-03-12 Opposition against Monsanto's patent on "Severed Broccoli”

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2014-02-03 Free Pepper!

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2013-10-16 European Patent Office a “democracy-free zone”

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2012-11-30 Demonstration in Munich

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2012-09-11 Signatures handed to the President of the European Parliament

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2011-11-08 Giant tomato at European Patent Office

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2011-10-26 Protest against patent on broccoli at the European Patent Office

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2010-07-20 Demonstration against patent on broccoli

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2010-07-19 International Conference on Patents on Seeds

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2009-04-15 Demonstration against patent on pigs

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2007-10-23 Demonstration against patent on cows

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Stop Patents on Plants and Animals!

The member organisations of NO PATENTS ON SEEDS! are concerned about the increasing number of patents on plants, seeds and farm animals and their impact on farmers, breeders, innovation and biodiversity.
These patents are an abuse of patent law and put in danger the access to basic resources in agriculture and food production.

Therefore, we call for an urgent re-think of European patent law in biotechnology and plant breeding and for clear regulations that exclude conventional breeding, genetic material, animals, plants and food derived thereof from patentability!