- The Guardian,
- Wednesday November 15 2000
Maize
1 Dow (US, including its subsidiary Agrigenetics) has applied for patents on 655 maize gene sequences, which is 30.3% of the total number of applications so far
2 Du Pont (US) has applied for 587, 26.9% of the total
3 Affymetrix (US) has applied for 418 (19.2%)
4 Monsanto (US) claims 102 sequences (4.7%)
5 AstraZeneca (UK) has 83 (3.8%)
The top 5 maize patenters have 84.9% of the total of 2,181 applications between them
Potato
1 Ribozyme (US) has applied for patents on 796 potato gene sequences (71.7%)
2 Monsanto (US) 62 (5.6%)
3 Danisco (Denmark) 40 (3.6%)
4 AstraZeneca (UK) 36 (3.2%%)
5 National Starch (Anglo-US) 24 (2.2%)
The top 5 potato patenters have 85.7% of the 1,110 current applications between them
Wheat
1 Du Pont (US) has applied for patents on 117 wheat gene sequences, which is 40.6% of all applications
2 Monsanto (US) has 78 (27.1%)
3 Aventis (France) has 14 (4.9%)
4 Novartis (Switzerland) 12 (4.2%)
5 CSIRO (Australia) 8 (2.8%)
The top 5 wheat patenters have 79.6% of the total (288) between them
