ISSN 2027-1238
E-Newsletter No. 5
October 2009

It seems the decade-long legal wrangle over the controversial "Enola" bean patent has finally been put to rest. On 16 September US courts rejected the latest legal move by seed company POD-NERS, which has been seeking to overturn a 2008 ruling to revoke the patent.

The latest decision marks a major victory for CIAT, the CGIAR, our partners, breeders, and small farmers everywhere. It should also be the end of the so-called "Enola" bean once-and-for-all.

For details of the latest decision, see here.

For a detailed background to one of the longest-running cases of biopiracy, see here.

Contact:
Daniel Debouck, d.debouck@cgiar.org