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Climate-Ready Crop Patents Present Danger For Biodiversity, Group Says

By Intellectual Property Watch

NAGOYA, JAPAN - A civil society group this week warned government officials gathered here against patents on ?climate-ready? crops and what they characterised as an attempt to obtain an exclusive monopoly over plant gene sequences. The group asked states at the United Nations biodiversity conference to recognise that such patents are a threat to biodiversity and to the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising from the utilisation of genetic resources.

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Full post as published by Intellectual Property Watch on October 26, 2010 (boomark / email).