Europarl seminar June 11/12 on EPO/EP-induced gene patent disaster

[Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>]

At

        http://www.etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=398

you find interesting statements by etcgroup and other organisations which
tried in vain to fight a very broad gene patent, granted by the EPO in
return for very little, if any, innovative achievements.  The EPO upheld
the patent by rigidly applying rules which its lobby had obtained from the
European Parliament in 1998.  Etcgroup and others warn that more disasters
are looming in the field of nanotechnology which is characterised by
modular and incremental innovation.

Some of these groups are co-organising a session in the Europarl on
June 11/12 with the Greens/EFA on Nanotechnology and the patent
problems as well as other problems which it is facing.

-- 
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-18979927
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