Leather industry representative body COTANCE has written to the European Patent Office (EPO) to complain about one of the finalists in a competition called the European Inventor Award.

One of 15 inventions that has a chance of winning the people’s vote in the 2021 European Inventor Award is Piñatex, a material that is made, in part, from waste from pineapple crops and which its inventor, Dr Carmen Hijosa, has long presented as an alternative to leather.

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