BioCentury
ARTICLE | Politics, Policy & Law

Closer to patent consensus

September 15, 1997 7:00 AM UTC

OXFORD - After almost a decade, it now looks as if Europe will have a harmonized set of rules for biotech patents.

European bioindustrialists are giving a cautious welcome to the European Commission's latest proposal for a European patents directive. Although the commission has agreed to accept all but one of the 66 amendments introduced by the European Parliament in July, industry's view is that it can live with the changes...