HC Deb 14 January 2004 vol 416 cc786-7W
Adam Price

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry pursuant to her answer to question reference 145352 of 7 January, if she will list the 13 animals to which patents have been granted; and in each case, to which part of the animal the patent applies. [147738]

Ms Hewitt

The animals are nematode worms (four patents), salmon (one patent), trout, (one patent), Zebrafish (one patent), mice (one patent), and nonhuman mammals in general (five patents). In each case, the patent relates to the whole organism.