Agricultural Crop Licensing Platform Launched in Europe A group of nine seed companies have joined together to launch the “Agricultural Crop Licensing Platform” (ACLP) in the European Union as a unified portal through which companies and plant breeders can gain access to patented traits in commercialized agricultural crop varieties. According to ALCP, “As soon as a commercial variety including a patented trait, that is in the scope of the ACLP, is sold by a member on the open market in the ACLP territory, other members will be entitled to obtain from the patent holder, a so-called non-assert that allows for breeding in the ACLP territory with the patented trait, including
