Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Intellectual Property and agricultural innovation -- Chapter 3. Bioprospecting and access to plant genetic resources -- Chapter 4. Agri-biotechnological inventions and climate change -- Chapter 5. Plant variety rights protection and food security -- Chapter...

This article considers the relationship between patenting and plant variety rights protection, through a detailed analysis of the recent determination by the Extended Board of Appeal of the European Patent Office that methods for breeding broccoli and tomatoes were not patentable. It concludes...