Stop the expropriation of farmers and breeders
The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and animal species leads to far-reaching expropriations of farmers and breeders: farmers are deprived of their rights to save their harvested seeds, and breeders are under strong limitations to use the patented seeds freely for further breeding.
The European Patent Office (EPO) has repeatedly broadened the scope of patentability and undermined existing restrictions, in the interest of multinational companies. Our food security is increasingly dependent on a few transnational chemical and biotechnological companies.
Now the European Patent Office deals with the basic question: Patents on conventional plants and animals!
The Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO will use a patent on broccoli (EP 1069819) for a fundamental ruling, on whether or not conventional plants are patentable. The decission of the Enlarged Board of Appeal (case T 0083/05) will be binding for all other pending patent applications and even for animals and their offspring. [ Read more ]
In a joint letter to the Enlarged Board of Appeal the organisers of this website and numerous farmers' organisations from around the globe restate their oposition to patents on conventional seeds and animals.
Go there: www.no-patents-on-seeds.org
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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Nice blog -- you are on your way to success!
Now this explains why the orchid I bought this week got patent pending written on tiny etikett.
Hallo Matze,thanks for dropping by my blog.Greatly appreciated it!
Have a nice week ahead!
I agree this patent thing has gone to far when it comes to seeds because it just hurts the farmer not helpes.
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I agree this patent thing has gone to far when it comes to seeds because it just hurts the farmer not helpes.
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Farmers argue they have a hard enough time making a living, let alone fighting off corporations and lawsuits. They have been sued even where their fields were contaminated by pollen and where seeds from a previous year have sprouted with non-genetically engineered varieties the following year.
So if you find a new plant and you want to patent that as yours you basically cannot do it right?
I am agree with the european Patent.
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I agree with your patents.if you find a new plant and you want to patent that as yours you basically cannot do it right?
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