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China`s agricultural patents on the rise

[BEIJING] Patent applications for agricultural innovations, particularly for genetically modified (GM) crops, have surged in China in the past decade, according to intellectual property experts. Statistics from the China Center for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (CCIPA) show that applications doubled between 2002 and 2008, from 4,500 to 9,300. The rise is against a backdrop of even ...

Mar. 2, 2010

By SciDev.Net

Rem Tec Obtains the Revocation of Fraunhofer Institute Patent

With the Hearing held in The Hague on 17/10/2018 REM Tec obtained the revocation of the patent EP 2 811 819 filed in 2013 by the Fraunhofer Institute. Fraunhofer's patent referred to agro-photovoltaic plants for the simultaneous use of agricultural crops and production of energy from solar sources, claiming characteristics already present in REM Tec's AGROVOLTAICO® plants, installed in ...

Feb. 8, 2019

By Rem Tec S.R.L.

Pakistan debates GM cotton’s success

Pakistan is beset by conflicting claims over the success of genetically modified (GM) cotton, now grown in over 90 per cent of the 2.5 million hectares under cotton. The GM cotton variety — also called Bt cotton because it contains a gene taken from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis that resists the bollworm pest — was originally developed and patented by the US agricultural ...

Apr. 20, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Dr. Xun Wang Joins Triton as President and Chief Executive Officer

Prior to Triton, Dr. Wang was a Senior Vice President at Reliance Industries Limited, a Fortune Global 500 company. As the Head of Technology, his responsibilities included overseeing all aspects of Algae-to-Oil technology development, driving company scientific strategy, and developing internal and external scientific collaborations. Previously, he was the Senior Vice President of R&D at ...

Oct. 25, 2014

By Triton Algae Innovations

Sub-saharan Africa news in brief: 24 February–9 March 2011

Below is a round up of news from or about Sub-Saharan Africa for the period 24 February–9 March 2011 African Academy of Sciences appoints new president The African Academy of Sciences has selected Ahmadou Lamine Ndiaye from Senegal as its new president. Ndiaye — former vice-president of the National Academy of Science and Technology of Senegal and special advisor to the country's ...

Mar. 9, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Agricultural biotechnology `should be open source`

Open source biotechnology, through which biotechnology inventions are made freely available for others to use and improve upon, could help developing countries overcome hurdles created by stringent intellectual property rights (IPRs), a study says. The concept is based on open source in software development. To date, open source software's free accessibility, low cost, openness to modification ...

Sep. 13, 2012

By SciDev.Net

China`s agricultural patents on the rise

Rem Tec Obtains the Revocation of Fraunhofer Institute Patent

Pakistan debates GM cotton’s success

Dr. Xun Wang Joins Triton as President and Chief Executive Officer

Sub-saharan Africa news in brief: 24 February–9 March 2011

Agricultural biotechnology `should be open source`

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