[Pirateninfo] patent auf onco-maus abgelehnt

[Martin Sundermann]

HARVARD MOUSE DECISION HAS IMPLICATIONS FOR WORLD HUNGER
December 5, 2002
>From a press release
TORONTO - Canada must defend the right of developing countries to resist
pressure from the international agribusiness lobby to allow patents on life
forms, The Canadian Catholic Organization for DEVELOPMENT AND PEACE (CCODP)
said today in reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to outrule a patent
on the Harvard Mouse.
Today's decision has implications for world hunger, the Catholic development
agency said, as a ban on the patenting of life forms in
Canada will stop Canadian patents on varieties of seeds used to grow staple
food crops. In the developing world, some 1.4 billion farmers depend on free
access to seeds of staple crops for their food security.
"The Supreme Court decision should be a signal to the government that Canada
must use its influence within the World Trade Organization to support
developing countries in their efforts to resist pressure to allow patents on
seeds and other life forms," said Roger Dubois, President of DEVELOPMENT AND
PEACE. "This would also be consistent with the policy of the Canadian
International Development Agency to support the food security rights of the
farmers of the South."
Developing countries have consistently complained that the international
agribusiness lobby has attempted to use grey areas in the WTO's agreement on
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) to pressure
the former to adopt legislation allowing patents on life forms. This would
mean that multinational companies would be able to develop monopolies on
seeds of varieties of staple crops, a situation which would inevitably lead
to control of the food chain by a small group of multinationals whose
headquarters are based in the industrialized countries.
Given the clear position that the Supreme Court has taken on the patenting
of life forms, Canada should now support calls for the WTO's TRIPS to be
rewritten so that this unethical practice is outlawed, Mr. Dubois said.
"We cannot own what is essentially a creation of nature. The seeds of food
crops are also the product of nature and the collective wisdom of
generations of farmers. These creations must be used and shared for the
benefit of all humanity."
Die homepage unter www.devp.org ist auch mit infos zum Thema 'Biopiraterie' ausgestattet.

Zum Onko-Maus-Urteil siehe auch:
Canadian Supreme Court rejects patent for Harvard research mouse...
http://www.cropchoice.com/leadstry.asp?RecID73

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