Seeds: Patents
(asked on 4th February 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether EU rulings on the patenting of seeds will apply in the UK after Brexit.
This question was answered on 12th February 2019
Existing EU law relating to the patentability of plants will be retained after we leave the EU by virtue of the EU Withdrawal Act 2018. UK courts may choose to have regard to future EU case law once we leave the EU.