Patenting of plant varieties and plant breeding methods.
This article considers the relationship between patenting and plant variety rights protection, through a detailed analysis of the recent determination by the Extended Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office that methods for breeding broccoli and tomatoes were not patentable. It concludes that the right to patent agricultural innovations is increasingly located within a political context.
Faculty of Law, University of Western Australia, Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, Australia. michael.blakeney@uwa.edu.au
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D000383:Agriculture; D001709:Biotechnology; D001947:Breeding; D010944:Plants