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Registration
Plant variety rights, UPOV, denominations and registration, put in place to support the commercial plan rather than stand in for it.
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When others want to trial your variety, get it right or everyone loses
More plant breeders are running larger, more public variety trials. Structured the wrong way, a trial can cost the breeder the right to protect the variety, and cost the trialling party the upside they worked for. Here is how to protect both.
Faster to breed, harder to own: what the EU's NGT deal means for plant IP
The EU's provisional deal will make gene-edited NGT1 varieties faster to create. For breeders and rights holders, the decision that matters is quieter: who ends up owning the traits.
Plant variety rights: what to register, when, and why it is rarely as simple as it looks
On paper, a plant variety right is a form and a fee. In practice it is a series of decisions about what to protect, where, and when, and the deadlines and the local rules are unforgiving. Here is what actually matters.
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