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New Delhi, February 03, 2012 (PTI) -- Environment activist Vandana Shiva
together with an European NGO today filed an opposition
against the US company Monsanto's patent on Indian melon.
The patent, granted in May 2011 as an invention of the US
company Monsanto by European Patent Office, claims melons with
a natural resistance to certain plant viruses originating in
India.