Plants, animals, not to be covered by innovation patent
Wednesday, 01 December, 2004
The federal government has accepted the recommendations of the Advisory Council on Intellectual Property, maintaining the status quo and continuing to exclude the patenting of plants, animals and the biological processes involved in their generation.
Federal industry parliamentary secretary Warren Entsch released the report, titled 'Should plant and animal subject matter be excluded from protection by innovation patent', which examined whether an intermediate level of patent protection -- the innovation patent -- should be extended to plant and animal material.
"There will be ongoing monitoring of the effectiveness of the innovation patent system and a major evaluation of the system by 2006," said Mr Entsch.
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