MEPs rebuke European Patent Office over conventional breeding copyright

THE ABUSE OF EUROPEAN PATENT LAW MUST STOP! The non-legislative resolution adopted in Strasbourg on Thursday (19 September) is scathing  about the EPO, saying their internal decision-making rules “must not undermine democratic political control of European patent law and its...

Open Letter to the European Parliament: Make the European Citizens’ Initiative work!

70 ECIs and CSOs want the European Parliament  to take the lead on how to respond to a successful ECI before the Commission adopts its formal response. On 20 June, the Constitutional Affairs Committee (AFCO) of the European Parliament will cast...