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250.000 maize kernels for 250.000 signatures
No Patents on Seeds! protest in front of the European Patent Office

13 December 2022 / The international coalition of No Patents on Seeds! will today be handing over 250.000 organic maize kernels to the European Patent Office (EPO). Each kernel represents a signature on a current petition against patents on conventionally-bred plants. The demands are supported by more than 70 organizations from 18 countries. The protest will take place to coincide with a meeting of the Administrative Council, and will also focus on a patent recently granted to the German company, KWS. This patent includes non-genetically engineered maize plants.
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2022-12-05: Patents filed by KWS are a threat to plant breeding in Europe
2022-11-22: 240.000 signatures against patents on seeds
2022-06-28: Patents on plant genes - a lockdown for conventional plant breeding
2022-05-10: Patent on barley and beer upheld
2022-03-23: Further patent on barley and beer about to be granted
2022-02-09: Increase in calls for an international conference to stop patents on seeds
2021-12-13: Opposition against BASF patent on watermelons
2021-11-24: Call for international conference to stop patents on seeds
2021-11-16: Patent claims on salmon and trout deleted
2021-11-15: Decision on patent covering salmon and trout
2021-11-03: Companies Carlsberg and Heineken want revocation of their own patent
2021-10-11: Patents on ‘New Genetic Engineering’ are a threat to traditional breeding
2021-07-07: Will politics now stop patents on seeds in Europe?
2021-06-28: Almost 200,000 signatures in campaign to demand immediate stop to patents on seeds
2021-06-08: Patent on barley and beer upheld
2021-05-05: EPO grants BASF a patent on water melons
2021-03-22: Patents on Seeds: Politicians and the EPO must take responsibility
2021-03-19: European Patent Office finally revokes Monsanto patent on melons
2021-03-09: Freedom for seeds!
2020-12-14: Still no solution for prohibiting patents on plants and animals
2020-06-25: Patents on seeds: Appeal to German Federal Minister of Justice Christine Lambrecht
2020-05-14: European Patent Office gives green light to prohibit patents on plants and animals
2020-04-23: Eleven reasons why Europe needs to ban patents on food plants and farm animals
2020-04-10: Carlsberg again files patent applications on barley and beer
2019-10-01: EU Parliament, national governments and civil society organizations against patents on plants and animals
2019-06-25: Opposition against patent on salmon and trout
2019-06-11: Patent applications covering ‘seeds to meat’and from ‘maize to milk’
2019-05-02: No patent on fish, chickens, pigs and cows!
2019-03-26: "European Patent Office: Hands off our food plants!"
2019-03-24: End the legal chaos at the European Patent Office!
2019-03-06: United call for action - protest at the European Patent Office
2019-03-05: Opposition against patent on lettuce
2019-01-31: After mass opposition: Syngenta patent on tomatoes revoked
2019-01-23: International appeal to the President of the European Patent Office, António Campinos
2018-12-05: European Patent Office calls the prohibition on the patenting of plants and animals from conventional breeding into question
2018-11-07: Baysanto “patent on severed broccoli” revoked
2018-10-08: Who invented beer and barley?
2018-10-03: Scope of patent on beer reduced after opposition
2018-06-14: Stop 'Baysanto' from monopolising seeds!
2018-03-26: “One single mutation is sufficient to patent a whole vegetable garden”
2018-02-20: Syngenta fails at the European Patent Office
2018-01-16: Growing opposition to patents on seeds
2017-10-11: Opposition to Monsanto bio-piracy patent on soybeans rejected
2017-10-10: Hearing on Monsanto soybean bio-piracy
2017-06-29: Still no solution regarding patents on plants and animals
2017-06-26: Through the back door: European Patent Office wants to expand patenting of plants and animals
2017-05-29: European Patent Office to strengthen prohibitions against patents on plants and animals
2017-04-26: European Patent Office and industry meeting on patents on seeds – public excluded
2017-04-10: Stop patents on bread and beer now!
2017-04-06: European Patent Office continues to grant patents on plants
2017-03-15: Call to stop patents on beer
2017-02-21: EU unites against patents on plants and animals
2017-01-20: Opposition against patents on beer!
2016-11-25: EU Council to discuss patents on plants and animals
2016-11-17: No Patents on Beer!
2016-11-03: EU Commission says plants and animals derived from conventional breeding should be regarded as non-patentable
2016-08-03: No intention of granting a patent on salmon ...
2016-07-20: Animals are not an invention of the feed industry!
2016-06-30: More than 800.000 signatures against patents on plants and animals
2016-06-21: Stop patents on plants and animals!
2016-05-13: 65.000 x opposition against Syngenta patent on tomatoes
2016-01-20: European Patent Office revokes Monsanto patent on melons
2016-01-20: Hearing on the opposition against Monsanto Patent on Indian Melon
2015-12-17: European Parliament calling for patents on plants derived from conventional breeding to be stopped
2015-12-07: Patent on tomatoes with reduced water content about to be granted
2015-10-27: Syngenta granted patent on pepper for use as food
2015-08-25: European Patent Office boosts its business with Patents on Life
2015-05-21: Monsanto soon to receive 30 European patents on food plants
2015-03-27: European Patent Office upholds patents on broccoli and tomato
2014-12-22: After opposition: Monsanto patent on tomatoes revoked
2014-12-01: Opposition to stop Monsanto soybean patent biopiracy
2014-10-23: “Patent industry selling out future of our food”
2014-10-16: No Patents on seeds ! Stop the Monsantos !
2014-05-30: Opposition against European Patent on tomatoes
2014-03-12: Opposition: Stop Monsanto “patent on severed broccoli”
2014-03-10: Opposition to Patent EP 1 597 965
2014-02-27: Monsanto bio-piracy supported by European Patent Office
2014-02-20: European Patent Office blunder leads to grant of a new patent on conventional breeding
2014-02-03: Free Pepper!
2013-10-16: European Patent Office a “democracy-free zone”
2013-06-26: German Parliament prohibits patents on plants and animals from conventional breeding
2013-06-12: Monsanto granted “patent on severed broccoli”
2013-05-09: European Patent on 'red hot chili peppers'
2013-03-13: A new wave of patents on plants
2012-12-10: The EU Unitary Patent: A 'One Stop Shop' for Monsanto & Co
2012-12-03: No genetically engineered plants in the fields or on our plates
2012-11-26: Stop the EU Unitary Patent!
2012-10-24: Demonstration on 30 November in Munich
2012-09-11: European patent law at crossroads
2012-06-28: Unitary Patent taken to next level
2012-05-10: European Parliament votes against patents on plants and animals
2012-05-03: Patent on animal breeding revoked
2012-04-02: Put emergency brakes on European Patent Office now!
2012-02-13: German Parliament adops resolution against patents on conventional breeding
2012-02-09: Public discussion at European Parliament
2012-02-03: Opposition to Monsanto´s Patent on Indian Melon
2011-11-23: No patents on breeding of animals!
2011-11-04: Patent on tomato becomes a landmark decision
2011-10-26: Protest against patent on broccoli at the European Patent Office
2011-10-20: Patent on Broccoli will not be revoked
2011-08-18: New patent granted to Bayer breaks the law
2011-07-27: Syngenta Patents Melons with a Pleasant Taste. Consumers Reject Patents on Foodstuffs
2011-05-16: Melons now a Monsanto “invention”
2011-03-07: European Patent Office to grant Monsanto company patent on tomatoes
2010-12-10: European Patent Office issues broccoli decision
2010-11-03: Conference Report
2010-07-21: Who owns broccoli and tomatoes?

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