Patenting life:
The Top Patenters in Food
Guardian 15nov00
Maize
- Dow (US, including its subsidiary Agrigenetics) has applied for
patents on 655 maize gene sequences, which is 30.3% of the total
number of applications so far
- Du Pont (US) has applied for 587, 26.9% of the total
- Affymetrix (US) has applied for 418 (19.2%)
- Monsanto (US) claims 102 sequences (4.7%)
- AstraZeneca (UK) has 83 (3.8%)
The top 5 maize patenters have 84.9% of the total of 2,181 applications
between them
Potato
- Ribozyme (US) has applied for patents on 796 potato gene
sequences (71.7%)
- Monsanto (US) 62 (5.6%)
- Danisco (Denmark) 40 (3.6%)
- AstraZeneca (UK) 36 (3.2%%)
- National Starch (Anglo-US) 24 (2.2%)
The top 5 potato patenters have 85.7% of the 1,110 current applications
between them
Wheat
- Du Pont (US) has applied for patents on 117 wheat gene
sequences, which is 40.6% of all applications
- Monsanto (US) has 78 (27.1%)
- Aventis (France) has 14 (4.9%)
- Novartis (Switzerland) 12 (4.2%)
- CSIRO (Australia) 8 (2.8%)
The top 5 wheat patenters have 79.6% of the total (288) between them
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