Is 2024 the year when patents on life are politically challenged?

Patent law in the plant sector has never been so much questioned since the adoption of the European legislation governing it in 1998 Indeed, during the debates on the European Commission’s proposal to deregulate GMOs, patentability of living organisms was called into question. The European Parliament, as well as several Member States, expressed a political will to ban patents. However, there are still gaps in the written word…