This news article was originally written in Spanish. It has been automatically translated for your convenience. Reasonable efforts have been made to provide an accurate translation, however, no automated translation is perfect nor is it intended to replace a human translator. The original article in Spanish can be viewed at Diez países acaparan el 90% de las patentes de genes marinos
Ten countries account for 90% of marine gene patents
28/03/2011
on March 28, 2011
Ten countries account for 90% of patents on marine genes, including some present in international waters, "a very appealing figure" if we take into account that these countries have 20% of the coasts of the world. The first three, United States, Germany and Japan, cover 70% of these patents and one of them, Switzerland, does not possess if you want to marine waters. These statistics emerge from a study involving researchers of the High Council for scientific research (CSIC) which is published in the latest issue of the journal Science.
