No Patents on Seeds! recently published a report highlighting the European Patent Office’s granting of patents not allowed under EU law. Link to the report in this post.
European Patent Office
European Patent Office tries to knock out European patent law
New rule was intended to prevent patents on traditional plant breeding 19 February 2026 / The European Patent Office has granted patent EP3720272 claiming traditionally-bred tomatoes with resistance to a plant virus (TBRFV) to the Dutch company Rijk Zwaan. The gene...
Patent-free zone for classical plant breeding in Europe!
No Patents on Seeds! has recently published a report with a proposal to amend the law to breeders’ access to biological material. We share the report here.
Scandalous patent granted on tomatoes
Our partners at ARCHE NOAH and No Patents on Seeds! have informed us of a new patent on tomato seeds held by a Dutch company. Here we share their press release.
EU plant breeders up against patents by the multinationals
More and more plant breeding material in the EU is getting patented by multinationals giants, a development that poses costs and hurdles for those small breeders that are working to maintain agrobiodiversity, a means of resilience in the face of climate change.
European Patent Office finally revokes Monsanto patent on melons
However, further patents on seeds can still be granted.. 19 March 2021 / The Technical Board of Appeal at the European Patent Office (EPO) has confirmed the revocation of a patent on melons held by Monsanto (EP1962578). In the patent, Monsanto claims melons with a...
