TOPIC
Protection
Seeing and defending varietal value: IP risk, monitoring, evidence, and enforcement across territories and the licence chain.
5 pieces
The supply chain that passed every audit and still carried the risk
A chain can be clean on sustainability and still carry legal risk, because everyone assumed someone else checked the authorisation. Usually no one did.
More registered titles, the same exposed position
A drawer full of certificates looks like security. In the field, protection is decided by three things a certificate does not give you.
What happens when you cannot see your IP risk
You cannot manage what you cannot measure. For most variety owners, the first sign of an infringement is a phone call, by which point the damage is already done.
E-commerce is the new front line for variety IP
Trade has moved online, and so has infringement. By the time an unauthorised listing reaches you secondhand, it has usually been selling for a while.
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.
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