Kokopelli, described as a biodiversity-promoting nonprofit association and seedbank that sells seeds of traditional varieties, loses a suit against a big seed company because their varieties aren't---and perhaps can't be, due to the genetic inhomogeneity associated with traditional varieties and that is part of their contribution to biodiversity---on the EU's official catalogue of seeds that can be sold.  In French at Kokopelli's site here, summarized (read down past the Iraq stuff) in English here.  One can see how this might be in part a case of well-intended regulation gone awry...regulation perhaps even intended in part to keep new technologically developed seed varieties from running amok or genetically influencing other varieties...but one can also imagine that the regulations that big agribusiness is exploiting were likely influenced by them toward such results.  Hopefully over the next few decades this kind of outrage, and similar ones like the "patenting" of existing varieties by agribusiness, will be curbed, but I have my doubts.  Even more hopefully, some resolution will be found by modifying the existing EU regulations, but there too I have my doubts.

Oh yeah, I learned of this at Wine Terroirs.