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More and more patent applications on CRISPR plants and animals
DowDuPont and 'Baysanto' have taken the lead in new methods of genetic engineering

DowDuPont is ahead having filed around 50 international patent applications (at the WIPO in Geneva) for genome editing and plants, followed by 'Baysanto' with around 30 applications. The US company Cellectis (and its subsidiary Calyxt), in cooperation with Bayer, is registered as having filed more than 20 applications. Further applicants are Syngenta and BASF. So far, very few patents have been filed by traditional breeding companies. These are results of recent patent research evaluated by Testbiotech.

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Testbiotech Background on patents on genome editing
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