https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1539367/pdf/hw1157.pdf
Thanks to public pressure there is much
goodwill in the leading companies to come to an
agreement on the use of IPR/TPR for humanitarian
use that does not interfere with commercial interests
of the companies. An interesting discussion of this
issue was part of a recent satellite meeting associated
with the World Food Prize Symposium 2000 in Des
Moines, Iowa (for more information, contact C.S.
Prakash, e-mail:
prakash@acd.tusk.edu).
We are now in a situation in which we have verbal
confirmation for free licenses for humanitarian use
for all intellectual and technical property involved.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2560613/pdf/11100623.pdf
The grain known as golden rice was
developed with the support of the Rocker-
feller Foundation and others over several
years by Dr Peter Beyer of the University
of Freiburg in Germany and Professor Ingo
Potrykus of the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology, Zurich. The technology
involves modifying the DNA of the com-
monest rice plant, Oryza sativa, by adding
bacterial and daffodil genes to produce rice
cells capable of making betacarotene using
certain methods patented by the life sciences
company Monsanto. Monsanto have now
agreed to provide royalty-free licenses for its
technologies to help fast-track the further
development and distribution of the rice
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