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Guides
How to commercialise a new plant variety: choosing the route that pays
The decision that sets what a new variety earns is how you commercialise it. The main licensing models, the royalty stack, and the sequence that protects the value.
Plant variety rights: what to register, when, and why it is rarely as simple as it looks
Plant variety rights look like paperwork. They are strategy: the novelty deadline, the denomination trap, and why no two countries protect a variety the same way.
Articles
Faster to breed, harder to own: what the EU's NGT deal means for plant IP
The EU's deal makes gene-edited NGT1 plants easier to develop. For breeders, the real contest is patents versus plant variety rights, and freedom to operate.
Plant variety rights have a visibility problem
Registration is only the base layer. Plant variety rights leak value through four visibility gaps: worth, supply chain, royalties and infringement.
CPVR filings fell in 2023: what it signals and what breeders can do next
A decline in CPVR applications across crop sectors, likely driven by post-pandemic pressures, costs and volatility, with practical remedies and a compliance lens after Nadorcott.
The Future of Plant IP Enforcement
How technology is changing the way breeders protect their varieties.
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