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Guardian Unlimited: Envoys avoid gene patent issue
Submitted by Gary Van Domselaar; posted on Monday, December 04, 2000
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"Europe will continue to allow the patenting of genes from living things until next year at least, after regulators at a key conference ducked the issue.
The diplomatic conference to revise the European patent convention, which ended in Munich yesterday, decided that it could not debate giving patents to "biotechnological inventions" until the EU had made up its mind on the issue.
This effectively means that the Munich-based European patent office will go on granting patents on human, animal and plant genes, according to powers it granted itself in controversial circumstances last year.
Earlier this month a survey carried out for the Guardian by GeneWatch UK found that worldwide more than 500,000 patents had been applied for on genes or gene sequences in living organisms, from humans to spiders."
Full Story:
http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,404899,00.html
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