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Interestingly enough, food, being central to every human being, has been excluded from pat-entability in many patent laws. The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs) now forces all Members of the World Trade Organization to abolish the exemption. For this reason, this study looks at the Patent Acts of Germany, Brazil, China, and India in a comparative law approach with respect to the exemption to patentability of food-related inventions and the effects of its abolition. Secondly, it describes the food sector of today and particularly its technological developments. Finally, the intellectual property situation of the food sector is analyzed.

Processed foods --- Food --- Agricultural biotechnology --- Patents. --- Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights --- Agro-biotechnology --- Biotechnology --- Foods --- Dinners and dining --- Home economics --- Table --- Cooking --- Diet --- Dietaries --- Gastronomy --- Nutrition --- Food industry and trade --- Accord sur les aspects des droits de propriété intellectuelle qui touchent au commerce --- ADPIC --- Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization --- Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights --- Agreement on TRIPs --- Guan mao zong xie ding yu mao yi you guan de zhi shi can quan xie ding (1994 April 15) --- Ittifāqīyat al-Jawānib al-Muttaṣilah bi-al-Tijārah min Ḥuqūq al-Milkīyah al-Fikrīyah (1994 April 15) --- Soglashenie po torgovym aspektam prav intellektualʹnoĭ sobstvennosti --- TRIPs --- TRIPs Agreement --- Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights --- World Trade Organization-TRIPs Agreement --- WTO Agreement on Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights --- WTO-TRIPs Agreement --- Primitive societies --- Markenrecht --- Urheberrecht / Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Medienrecht --- Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz