Contents: HAIM H. COHN. Pro veritate habetur; FRIEDRICH-KARL BEIER. Biotechnology and industrial property protection; R.S. CRESPI. Protection of microbiological inventions under the European and British systems; JORGE A. GOLDSTEIN. The Grace Period and the American perspective; JOSEPH STRAUS. International implications of plant variety rights and patent protection; JOHN P. WHITE. Patents for Israeli biotechnological inventions.