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"Mr President, the fact that we already have a directive and a 2012 resolution on this matter makes the issue clear: that the EPO’s Enlarged Board of Appeal has again issued a finding to create the possibility to patent biological processes, and this is unacceptable, Commissioner. What we are witnessing is entrepreneurship on the part of the Patent Office, the logic of whose entire existence depends on the granting of patents. If we allow this sort of practice to continue, then we threaten food production, food security, plant innovation and biotechnology and essentially give further power to multinationals over our food supply.
What the EPO has done with its decision of 25 March 2012 basically amounts to commercialisation of the natural world. It is my understanding – and maybe the Commissioner can clarify this – that there are currently 260 such patent applications pending in the pipeline, which is why the Commission must urgently clarify and consider revising Directive 98/44/EC so that unrestricted access to biological material is safeguarded."@en1
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