Biotechnology patents in the European Union

As such, it has always supported strongintellectual property rights and the principle of non-discrimination in the protection of intellectual property, whether with respect to geographical origin or type of invention in the case of patents. Companies from all over the world doing business in the European Union,including many European companies, are active in and through the ICC; in the following comments they express their views from a global perspective. A global technology of enormous power, it is important that biotechnology should be regulated in all countries in the same overall spirit, though some adaptation to local needs may be both necessary and appropriate.