A review on plant breeding techniques and cultivars are patentable

Most nations recognize the creation of new plant varieties as a kind of intellectual property right (IPR) stemming from the International Convention on the Prevention of New Varieties of Plants. Article 27.3(b) of the WTO Agreements on Tariffs and Trade of Intellectual Property Rights requires its members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to "provide for the plants varieties by either patents or by an appropriate generis system, or by any combination thereof." The connection between patenting as well as plant variation rights protection is examined in depth in this article, which examines the recent decision by the European Patent Office's Extended Board of Appeal that techniques for growing broccoli and tomatoes were not patentable. It comes to the conclusion that the right to patent agricultural inventions is becoming more politicized.