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As of 1 July 2017, the European Patent Office (EPO) no longer issues patents for plants and animals obtained by the essentially biological breeding process. The discussion about this legislative amendment started several years ago, and initially, the amendment was to only include the method and not the final product. The European Commission Directive of 2016...