Media Release
Keeping patent law innovative
CropLife commends the Senate Committee on Constitutional and Legal Affairs for their rational decision to recommend the Parliament reject a Private Member's Bill that sought to ban biological patents. CropLife Australia, as the peak industry organisation for the plant science industry, is strongly opposed to the Bill because, if passed, it would significantly undermine the important emerging bioeconomy.The industry specific exclusion of biotechnologies would have been contrary to several of Australia's international agreements and would…
