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Indirect infringement of intellectual property rights can be found when a party actively induces a third party to infringe a patent, or contributes to that infringement.
Patents on microorganisms are far from new. In the brewing and baking industries, yeast has traditionally played an important part and patents for new types of yeast were granted in Belgium in 1833 and in Finland in 1843. But how can you patent a microorganism?
