Public activity in The hague

On 16 May 2023, No patents on seeds! filed an opposition against a patent on maize with cold resistance held by KWS.

In The Hague we handed over the latest research report to the European Patent Office.

You can download photos of the event in high resolution here until 24 May 2023: https://we.tl/t-gX7Rnga8qs After that, please get in touch with johanna.eckhardt@no-patents-on-seeds.org.

The press release (16 May 2023)

More about the KWS patent

The research report

Photos/credits: No patents on seeds!

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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!