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Maybe. There are GMO patents.

As written it is a bit too broad since it does not allow the consumer to synthesize anything in their bodies that coincides with what's in the fruit.




In the USA there are also "plant patents" which like software patents aren't recognized in most countries. It doesn't require it to be GMO, just to have undergone certain types of selection and breeding and be registered in the right way.

GMO patents are usually done via standard utility patents, the plant patent is actually a third category separate from design or utility patents.




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