中国生物工程杂志

The third large-scale merger and reorganization of multinational seed companies have formed a new international seed pattern,intellectual property protection is one of the biggest drivers of cross-border seed mergers and acquisitions. Studying the accumulation and reorganization of the core intellectual property rights formed by the merger of multinational seed companies, it is possible to further examine the changing trend of the new pattern of international seed industry competition. One of the trends, the United States, Japan and Europe are still the leaders and monopolists of global breeding research and development innovation activities, large-scale mergers and acquisitions, achieving the integration of technology and resources, and promoting the concentration of international seed industry, 42.75% of patent applications of the global seed industry is concentrated in the United States, Japan and the European Union, and holding 64.68% of the global DNA recombination technology patents. Trend 2, intellectual property has become a powerful weapon for multinational seed companies to maintain market competitive advantage, and multinational seed companies is the owner of core technology patents. Bayer/Monsanto, China Chemical/Syngenta and DuPont Pioneer/Dow’s seed patent applications for global breeding is nearly 14%, and more than 81% of the global crop transformants are controlled by multinational seed companies. Research and analysis on the changing trend of the new pattern of international seed industry competition can provide valuable policy advice for China’s seed industry mergers and acquisitions.