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Tolerance In Plants Of Solanum Lycopersicum To The Tobamovirus Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus (Tbrfv) - EP3629711

The patent EP3629711 was granted to Vilmorin & CIE on Aug 28, 2024. The application was originally filed on May 29, 2018 under application number EP18727798A. The patent is currently recorded with a legal status of "Granted And Under Opposition".

EP3629711

VILMORIN & CIE
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EP18727798A
Filing Date
May 29, 2018
Status
Granted And Under Opposition
Jul 26, 2024
Grant Date
Aug 28, 2024
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OPPOSITION- Behare J., Et Al., "Restriction fragment length polymorphism mapping of the Stemphylium resistance gene in tomato", Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, (19910101), vol. 4, no. 5, pages 489 - 492, XP055901593-
OPPOSITION- D12 - SEQ ID NO: 7 to SEQ ID NO: 18 alignments against Micro-Tom genome-
OPPOSITION- D13 - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 18 present in homozygous form in Micro-Tom genome-
OPPOSITION- D15 - SEQ ID NO: 7 to SEQ ID NO: 18 alignments against Motelle genome-
OPPOSITION- D16 - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 18 present in homozygous form in Motelle genome-
OPPOSITION- D17a - Snapshot of Supplementary Table 1 of D17-
OPPOSITION- D1 - No Patents on Seeds! (2023) Correct legal interpretation of Article 53(b), EPC, within the context of the EU patent directive 98/44/EC-
OPPOSITION- D20 - SEQ ID NO: 7 to SEQ ID NO: 18 alignments against KR2 genome-
OPPOSITION- D21 - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 18 present in homozygous form in KR2 genome-
OPPOSITION- D22 - Declaration Frank Millenaar-
OPPOSITION- D23 - Report of the Tomato Genetics Cooperative 1968 TGC Report No. 18 pages 1-71-
OPPOSITION- D25 - SEQ ID NO: 3 to SEQ ID NO: 6 alignments against Micro-Tom genome-
OPPOSITION- D26 - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 6 present in homozygous form in Micro-Tom genome-
OPPOSITION- D27 - SEQ ID NO: 3 to SEQ ID NO: 6 alignments against Motelle genome-
OPPOSITION- D28 - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 6 present in homozygous form in Motelle genome-
OPPOSITION- D29 - SEQ ID NO:3 to SEQ ID NO: 6 alignments against KR2 genome-
OPPOSITION- D2 - Luria N, Smith E, Reingold V, Bekelman I, Lapidot M, Levin I, et al. (2017) A new Israeli Tobamovirus Isolate Infects Tomato Plants Harboring Tm-22 Resistance Genes. PLoS ONE 12(1): e0170429. Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170429-
OPPOSITION- D30 - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 6 present in homozygous form in KR2 genome-
OPPOSITION- D32a - Alignment of SEQ ID NO: 12 and LA2982-
OPPOSITION- D32b - Proof of tolerant allele of SEQ ID NO: 12 present in homozygous form in LA2982-
OPPOSITION- D34 - Alignment of SEQ ID NO: 3 and LA2982-
OPPOSITION- D34a - Proof of tolerant allele of SEQ ID NO: 3 present in homozygous form in LA2982-
OPPOSITION- D39 - VC532 Biosample SAMN45138341 NCBI-
OPPOSITION- D3 - No Patens on Seeds! (2024) Seed Patents: A huge challenge for the European Union Analysis of the problem, case studies and potential solutions-
OPPOSITION- D40a - Homozygous SEQ ID NO: 6 and VC532-
OPPOSITION- D40 - Alignment of SEQ ID NO: 6 and VC532-
OPPOSITION- D42a - Alignment of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 11, and 14 to 18 and M-82-
OPPOSITION- D42b - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 7 to 11, and 14 to 18 present in homozygous form in M-82-
OPPOSITION- D42c - Alignment of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 5 and M-82-
OPPOSITION- D42d - Proof of tolerant alleles of SEQ ID NOs: 3 to 5 present in homozygous form in M-82-
OPPOSITION- D47 - Patentee’s response in EP examination proceedings, dated April 14, 2023-
OPPOSITION- D48a - Hirakawa Supplemental Table 1 (AddSuppFiles-4 - xlsx file)-
OPPOSITION- D48b - Summary of Hirakawa Suppl Table 1 (D48a)-
OPPOSITION- D49b - Sim et al., Suppl Table 1-
OPPOSITION- D49 - Compilation from the SolGenomics website for markers-
OPPOSITION- D49c - Sim et al., Suppl Table 8-
OPPOSITION- D4 - No Patent on Seeds! (2024) How patents block the breeding of tomatoes resistant to the harmful Tomato Brown Rugose Fruit Virus-
OPPOSITION- D50a - Common Catalogue Of Varieties Of Vegetable Species, 2015-
OPPOSITION- D50b - Extract of sales Anairis-
OPPOSITION- D50 - DUS report Anairis, 2009-
OPPOSITION- D51a - Notice of Registration NL Ventero, 2014-
OPPOSITION- D51b - Extract of sales Ventero-
OPPOSITION- D51c - Article fhalmeria, 24.3.2017-
OPPOSITION- D51d - English translation of D51c-
OPPOSITION- D51 - DUS report Ventero, 2012-
OPPOSITION- D51e - Fruit Attraction 2010 event, 27.10.2010-
OPPOSITION- D51f - Promotion Event Ventero, March 2017-
OPPOSITION- D51g - English translation of D51-
OPPOSITION- D51h - Fruit attraction, 24.11.2010-
OPPOSITION- D51i - English translation of D51h-
OPPOSITION- D52a - Annex A to D52: Experimental descriptions and experimental data-
OPPOSITION- D52 - Declaration Ben Hunter-
OPPOSITION- D53a - Connection between batch sold seeds and retention seeds-
OPPOSITION- D53 - Invoice Anairis-
OPPOSITION- D54 - Invoice Ventero-
OPPOSITION- D55 - Declaration Jan Barten-
OPPOSITION- D56 - Invoice for the order of seed samples of the deposit NCIMB42758, 22.11.2022-
OPPOSITION- D5 - No Patents on Seeds! (2025) Putting food security at risk: Patents on conventionally bred seeds with resistance to plant pathogens-
OPPOSITION- D61a - exemplary partial screenshot of the first tab of D61-
OPPOSITION- D61 - “Supplementary Tables1,4 and 7-10” accessible from https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3117, section “Supplementary information” published online on 12 October 2014 (source: https://staticcontent.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fng.3117/MediaObjects/41588 _201 4_B Fng3117_MOESM48_ESM.xls);-
OPPOSITION- D62a - partial screenshot of the index webpage of D62-
OPPOSITION- D62b10 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-7 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b1 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-11 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b2 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-143 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue);-
OPPOSITION- D62b3 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-212 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b4 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-228 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b5 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-306 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue);-
OPPOSITION- D62b6 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-319 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b7 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-320 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b8 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-4 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62b9 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession TS-78 (SNPs of interest highlighted in blue)-
OPPOSITION- D62 - VCF files published on 7 July 2014 (source: https://solgenomics.net/ftp/genomes/tomato_360/360_VCFs_2.40/)-
OPPOSITION- D64a - exemplary partial screenshot of the first tab of D64-
OPPOSITION- D64 - excel file entitled“tpj12616-sup-0011-TableS1.xlsx” accessible from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/tpj.12616, section“Supporting Information” published online on 12 July 2014-
OPPOSITION- D65a - partial screenshot of the index webpage of D65-
OPPOSITION- D65b1 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession RF_40 (SNPs of interest highlighted in light blue)-
OPPOSITION- D65b2 - annotated screenshots of the VCF file for the tomato accession RF_42 (SNPs of interest highlighted in light blue)-
OPPOSITION- D65 - VCF files published on3 November 2014 (source: https://solgenomics.net/ftp/genomes/tomato_150/150_VCFs_2.40/)-
OPPOSITION- D68a - exemplary partial screenshot of D68;-
OPPOSITION- D68b - website relating to the “International tomato genome sequencing project” (source: https://solgenomics.net/organism/Solanum_lycopersicum/genome)-
OPPOSITION- D68 - online tool disclosing the physical positions on the genome being based on the version 2.40 of the tomato genome (source: https://solgenomics.net/jbrowse/JBrowse- 1.11.4/?data=data%2Fjson%2Ftomato_variants&loc=SL2.40ch00%3A1..4360072&tracks=D NA&highlight=)-
OPPOSITION- D69a - screenshot of the opening webpage of D69-
OPPOSITION- D69b1-D69b16 - annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ annotated screenshots of BLAST results of SEQ D NO:9 against the reference genome; D NO:8 against the reference genome; D NO:13 against the reference genome; D NO:7 against the reference genome; D NO:10 against the reference genome; D NO:11 against the reference genome; D NO:12 against the reference genome; D NO:14 against the reference genome; D NO:15 against the reference genome; D NO:16 against the reference genome; D NO:17 against the reference genome; D NO:18 against the reference genome; D NO:3 against the reference genome; D NO:4 against the reference genome; D NO:5 against the reference genome; D NO:16 against the reference genome-
OPPOSITION- D69 - online BLAST search tool for the tomato genome protein sequences (source: https://solgenomics.sgn.cornell.edu/tools/blast);-
OPPOSITION- D6 - Documents for opposition as signed by the opponents-
OPPOSITION- D70 - Screenshot of a data list for the Tomato reference genome SL2.40 available on SGN, including VCF files published on 2 February 2011 (source: https://solgenomics.net/ftp/tomato_genome/assembly/build_2.40/)-
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OPPOSITION- Fernandez-Pozo Noe, Menda Naama, Edwards Jeremy D., Saha Surya, Tecle Isaak Y., Strickler Susan R., Bombarely Aureliano, Fisher-York Thomas, Pujar Anuradha, Foerster Hartmut, Yan Aimin, Mueller Lukas A., "The Sol Genomics Network (SGN)—from genotype to phenotype to breeding", Nucleic Acids Research, Oxford University Press, GB, GB , (20150128), vol. 43, no. D1, doi:10.1093/nar/gku1195, ISSN 0305-1048, pages D1036 - D1041, XP093283323
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OPPOSITION- Sung-Chur Sim, Gregor Durstewitz, Jörg Plieske, Ralf Wieseke, Martin W. Ganal, Allen Van Deynze, John P. Hamilton, C. Robin Buell, Mathilde Causse, Saranga Wijeratne, David M. Francis, "Development of a Large SNP Genotyping Array and Generation of High-Density Genetic Maps in Tomato", PLoS ONE, vol. 7, no. 7, doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0040563, page e40563, XP055352743
OPPOSITION- Zisi Zafeiro, Ghijselings Lucas, Vogel Elise, Vos Christine, Matthijnssens Jelle, "Single amino acid change in tomato brown rugose fruit virus breaks virus-specific resistance in new resistant tomato cultivar", FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, Frontiers Research Foundation, CH, CH , vol. 15, doi:10.3389/fpls.2024.1382862, ISSN 1664-462X, XP093282977
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