1SPECIAL SECTORAL REPORT INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY, BRUSSELS, OCTOBER 1998
2Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION on the Community patent Brussels, 1.8. 2000 COM(2000)412 final 2000/0177(CNS)
3Direetive 98/44/EC OF THE EUPOPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions Official Journal of the European Communities 30.7.98 L213/13
4DECISION OF 20 DECEMBER 1999, CASE NUMBER G0001/98
5Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 of 27 July 1994 on Community plant variety rights OJ L 227 01.09. 1994 p. 1
6Commission Regulation (EC) No 1238/95 of 31 May 1995establishing implementing rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 as regards the fees payable to the Community Plant Variety Office OJ L 121 01.06.1995 p.31; Amendedby 300R0329 OJ L037 12.02.2000 p.19
7Commission Regulation (EC) No 1239/95 of 31 May 1995establishing implementing rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 as regards proceedings before the Community Plant Variety Office OJ L 121 01.06.1995 p.37
8Commission Regulation (EC) No 1768/95 of 24 July 1995implementing rules on the agricultural exemption provided for in Article 14 (3) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2100/94 on Community plant variety rights OJ L 173 25.07.1995 p. 14; Amended by 398R2605 OJ L 328 04.12.1998 p. 6
9NEW EPO RULES FOR BIOTECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION 01.09.1999
10LEADING CASE:CASE 15/74 CENTRAFARM V. STERLING DRUG [1974] E.C.R. 1147