Przegląd Prawa Rolnego, 2017 Nr 1 (20)
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Item Patenty dotyczące roślin w świetle Konwencji o udzielaniu patentów europejskich i dyrektywy w sprawie ochrony prawnej wynalazków biotechnologicznych(Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, 2017) Nowicka, AureliaThe purpose of this article is an analysis of interpretative problems regarding the exclusion of patentability of plants obtained by essentially biological processes. In the practice of the European Patent Office (EPO) the problem concerns the construction of Article 53(b) of the Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC) and the main question is whether the interpretation adopted in the decisions of the Enlarged Board of Appeal of the EPO of 25 March 2015 regarding cases G 2/12 (Tomatoes II/State of Israel) and G 2/13 (Broccoli II/Plant Bioscience) complies with the goals and objectives as well as assumptions of Directive 98/44/EC on legal protection of biotechnological inventions. The legal argumentation contained in the documents adopted by the institutions of the European Union in response to the decisions in the cases referred to above (G 2/12 and G 2/13) have been examined in particular. A special attention has been given to the European Parliament resolution of 17 December 2015 on patents and plant breeders’ rights and the Commission Notice on certain articles of Directive 98/44/EC. The views expressed by EU institutions with regard Directive 98/44/EC have brought about a normative amendment implemented by the Decision of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation of 29 June 2017 amending Rules 27 and 28 of the Implementing Regulations to the EPC. To sum up, a proposal for the amendments to the Polish Act – Industrial Property Law is made, with a recommendation that they ought to be applied to national patents granted by the Patent Office of the Republic of Poland.