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News releases on
seed-related Intellectual Property Protection
August 08
Switzerland ratifies 1991 Act of the UPOV Convention
July 08
Bayer
CropScience launches new patented fingerprint
authentification technique: Qualidate to combat illegal
trade and counterfeiting
Bayer CropScience führt neue patentierte Technik zur
Echtheitsprüfung ein: Mit Qualidate illegalen Handel und
Fälschungen bekämpfen
June 08
Kolloquium zu Biopatenten eröffnet
April 08
Bayer CropScience to enforce its
Mefenpyr patent
Bayer CropScience
will Mefenpyr-Patent durchsetzen
Evaluation of the
European legislation governing the marketing of seeds and plant
propagating material within the European Union
March 08
France:
Catalogue et semences
de ferme : le GNIS répond à la Confédération paysanne
January 08
Bundesregierung
verhindert die Nutzung von Innovationen - Pflanzenzüchter sehen
Standortnachteile für die deutsche Landwirtschaft
December 07
Ukraine adopts law
on biosafety in creating, testing, transporting and using GM
organisms
Украина приняла закон «О государственной системе
биобезопасности при создании, испытании, транспортировке и
использовании генетически модифицированных организмов»
November 07
Roadmap
Biokraftstoffe vor der Sackgasse? Fehlender Sortenschutz
gefährdet Produktivitätsfortschritt in der Landwirtschaft
Deutschland:
Entbürokratisierung der Nachbauregelung
October 07
GNIS Info:
Les semences de
ferme en France et la loi
France:
Lutte contre la
contrefaçon des semences fermières
Turkey accedes to
the UPOV Convention
La Turquie adhère à la Convention UPOV
Die Türkei tritt dem UPOV-Übereinkommen bei
Turquía se adhiere al Convenio de la UPOV
Bio Suisse
aktualisiert Sortenlisten für Gemüse und Zierpflanzen
Syngenta rights
to GA21 in corn reaffirmed by US federal appeals court
September 07
UK Seed
Certification Information letters 2007: SC 6/07 – UK triticale
seed derogation
Bayer CropScience
protects cotton defoliant patents
European
enforcement authorities meet to co-ordinate fight against
counterfeit pesticides
Switzerland:
Nationalrat hat
stillschweigend die Ausdehnung des Landwirteprivilegs fallen
lassen
Le Conseil National a renoncé à étendre le privilège des
agriculteurs
Gut zu wissen:
Aufbereiter muss sich nach aufzubereitender Sorte erkundigen
Nachbau von
Hybridroggen in Deutschland gesetzlich verboten
August 07
Codes et Systèmes
agricoles de l’OCDE
Novellierung des
deutschen Gentechnikgesetzes - Rechtlicher Rahmen muss
Wettbewerbsfähigkeit gewährleisten
- Große
Koalition verhindert Innovation am Standort Deutschland
July 07
The Netherlands:
Kamervragen over
genetisch gemanipuleerde tomaten June 07
greenovation Biotech
GmbH gets first US patent granted on glyco-engineering portfolio
Ratification by Spain
of the 1991 Act of the International Convention for the
Protection of New Varieties of Plants
Ratificación de España del Acta de 1991 del Convenio
Internacional para la Protección de las Obtenciones Vegetales
Cellectis S.A.
wins a patent battle in the field of targeted recombination
and gene correction - The European Patent Office confirms
revocation of Sangamo's patent
European crop
protection industry welcomes support of Russian government
at launch of anti-counterfeit campaign
May 07
European Patent Office
revokes Monsanto's soybean patent EP 301749 B1 in appeal
proceedings
April 07
Nueva ley de
semillas en México
European Union:
Common catalogue of
varieties of vegetable species (consolidated version of 11 April
2007)
February 07
European Crop Protection Association welcomes innovative
marker technology in the fight against illegal and
counterfeit plant protection products
Keine Patente
auf Pflanzen und Tiere - Deutscher Bauernverband fordert
Stärkung des Zuchtfortschrittes
January 07
Nichtwissen schützt
nicht vor Strafe - Aktive Informationspflicht für Aufbereiter
zur Wahrung von Sortenschutzrechten
Community Plant
Variety Office will be present at the IPM (International
Trade Fair for Plants)
L’Office Communautaire des Variétés Végétales participera
au Salon IPM (Foire Internationale des Plantes)
December 06
Accession of Ukraine to the 1991
Act of the International Convention for the Protection of New
Varieties of Plants
Adhesión
de Ucrania al Acta de 1991 del
Convenio Internacional para la Protección de las Obtenciones
Vegetales
Adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'Acte de 1991 de
la Convention internationale pour la protection des obtentions
végétales
Beitritt der Ukraine zur Akte von 1991
des Internationalen Übereinkommens zum Schutz von
Pflanzenzüchtungen
October 06
Speech by the Dutch
Minister of Agriculture during the opening of the Breeders'
Rights Conference in Vietnam
U.K. Department of
Agriculture publishes October issue of The Plant Varieties and
Seeds Gazette
European
Community Plant Variety Office to present community plant
breeders' rights at Horti Fair 2006
August 06
The European common
catalogue of varieties of agricultural plant species
(consolidated version of 19 July 2006)
Bart Kiewiet
appointed President of the Community Plant Variety Office
for third five-year term
June 06
Internationaler
Saatgutvertrag der FAO jetzt anwendbar
European Court of
Justice: Judgment Joined Cases C-7/05, C-8/05, C-9/05
Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltung
Gerichtshof der Europäischen
Gemeinschaften: Urteil Verbundene Rechtssachen C-7/05,
C-8/05, C-9/05 Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltung
- Europäischer
Gerichtshof gegen 80 Prozent pauschale Nachbaugebühr
April 06
European Crop
Protection Association calls for end to counterfeiting and
illegal trade on occasion of World Intellectual Property Day
2006
Counterfeiting is
major threat to plant science innovation, poses serious dangers
to farmers, environment and human health
UK Plant Variety
Rights Office & Seeds Division of Defra - Recent publications
Iceland becomes 61st
member of UPOV
January 06
The Court of
Justice of the European Communities – Judicial proceedings
December
05
UK:
Plant Variety and Seeds Gazette
December 2005
November
05
Jury finds in
favor of Monsanto in patent case involving Bayer CropScience and
insect-protected corn technology
October 05
Protéus granted
U.S. patent on gene shuffling technology
August 05
Deutsche
Saatgutunternehmen klagen gegen Bundesministerium für
Landwirtschaft
July 05
EU
accedes to International Convention for the Protection of New
Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
Uncertainty reigns as
biotech patents remain unharmonised in the European Union
European Commission adopts
a second report on biotechnological inventions, covering gene
patents and stem cells
June 05
European Union accedes
to International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties
of Plants
UK Department for
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Electronic Seeds and
Plants (ESP) project
European Community Plant
Variety Office celebrates its 10th anniversary
European Union:
Meeting of the
Standing Committee on "Community Plant Variety Rights", 17 May
2005
May 05
Wageningen University : "Impacts of Strengthened
Intellectual Property Rights Regimes on the Plant
Breeding Industry in Developing Countries"
Sortenschutz by
Zierpflanzen stark zunehmend in 2004
Syngenta Seeds wins
jury verdict on illegal wheat seed sale
April 05
European
Commission
Standing Committee on Seeds and
Propagating Material of Agriculture, Horticulture and Forestry
(SCSP) - Summary report of the meeting held on 17 March 2005
United
Kingdom Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
Plant Variety and Seeds Gazette April 2005
European Patent Office:
Monsanto's European
patent on herbicide-tolerant plants maintained in limited form
Maintien sous une forme limitée
d'un brevet européen relatif à des plantes résistantes à un
herbicide
DEFRA Electronic
Seeds and Plants (ESP) project - Progress report for 14 Dec 04
to 18 Mar 05 now available
March 05
European Patent
Office upholds decision to revoke Neem patent
Syngenta receives
intellectual property protection for corn herbicide in China
Syngenta erhält in China Patentschutz für Maisherbizid
Syngenta obtient une protection de sa propriété intellectuelle
pour un herbicide du maïs en Chine
February
05
United Kingdom -
DEFRA Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette 2005
Deutsches Saatgutrecht mit
Augenmaß reformieren - Neue Züchtungstechnologien fordern Transparenz im
Anerkennungssystem
Bayer CropScience,
Max Planck Society, Monsanto Company resolve agrobacterium
patent dispute
Bayer CropScience,
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und Monsanto beenden
Patentauseinandersetzung über Agrobacterium
January 05
DEFRA publishes
January 2005 issue of the Plant Varieties and Seeds Gazette
BASF granted Canadian
patent which provides protection for CLEARFIELD technology
Summary report of
the November 24, 2004 meeting of the standing committee on
European Community plant variety rights
December
04
Gesetzliche
Aufzeichnungspflicht im Pflanzenschutz nicht zielführend
Syngenta Seeds
receives US$460,000 in settlement of lawsuits on illegal sale of
its wheat seed
Syngenta to appeal
patent verdict favoring Monsanto, Dow unit
République
Française: Loi n° 2004-1338 du 8 décembre 2004 relative
à la protection des inventions biotechnologiques
German
biopatent law passed
Deutsches
Biopatent-Gesetz beschlossen - DBV-Kritik zu Patenten
auf Pflanzen und Tiere
UK Plant Variety Rights
Office & Seeds Division of Defra:
- Seed Certification
- Provision of official seals to the UK seed trade
November
04
Syngenta and
DuPont reach agreement on lawsuits
Syngenta et DuPont trouvent un accord mettant fin à leurs
litiges
Syngenta und DuPont legen Rechtsstreit bei
October
04
Judgment
of the Court of Justice of the European Union in case
C-447/02 P: Community trade mark – Regulation (EC) No
40/94 – Absolute ground for refusal – Distinctive
character – Colour per se – Orange colour - KWS Saat AG
vs. Office for Harmonisation in the Internal Market
(Trade Marks and Designs) (OHIM)
Nachbauregelung: Keine generelle Auskunftspflicht bei
Saatgut - Deutscher Bauernverband begrüßt Urteil des
Europäischen Gerichtshofes
September 04
SICASOV Group,
French market leader for seed licensing management, will use
Versant technology to manage biotech royalties
Inscription of MON 810 GM
maize varieties in the Common EU Catalogue of Varieties
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La
Comisión Europea aprueba incluir variedades MG en el Catálogo
Común de Variedades de Semillas
June 04
Der Deutsche
Bauernverband lehnt Entscheidung des Europäischen Patentamts ab:
keine Patente auf Tiere und Pflanzen
May 04
E.U. Competitiveness
Ministers to decide on the community patent
Bundesgerichtshof
bestätigt Saatguttreuhandverwaltung
Monsanto files patent
infringement suit against Syngenta over GA21(R) Roundup Ready
corn
Monsanto maintains
intellectual property for GA21 Roundup Ready corn; Syngenta not
licensed by Monsanto for GA21
March
04
European Court of
Justice: Holders of Community plant variety rights are free to
choose the legal form they wish to take
Auskunftspflicht bei
Z-Saatgutkauf - Europäischer Gerichtshof urteilt zur Auskunft
beim Nachbau
INCOTEC launches
new marker technology to protect seed against counterfeiting or
illegal multiplication
Bundesverbraucherministerin Künast fordert Klarheit und Wahrheit
beim Patentschutz
January
04
Keine Patente auf
Pflanzen: Einspruch gegen „Monsanto-Patent“ auf Weizen, Mehl und
Kekse
Beim Saatgutkauf
zusätzliche Erklärungen über Gentechnik erforderlich - Fehlende
EU-Saatgutschwellenwerte führen zu Risiken für Landwirte
December
03
Syngenta Crop
Protection files suit against Sipcam Agro USA
October 03
Intellectual property
protection for plant-related inventions in Europe
European Commission proposes
to maintain levels of seed subsidies for 2004/05
June 03
European Patent Office
upholds GM soybean patent
May 03
"Soya" patent limited
after hearing in opposition proceedings before the European Patent
Office
April
03
Lochow-Petkus begrüßt
EuGH-Urteil - Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshofes über die
Auskunftspflicht von Landwirten legt die Grundlage für
nachhaltige Zukunftsinvestitionen
European Court of
Justice: The holder of a community plant variety right can ask a
farmer to provide information if there is some indication that
the farmer has made use of the "agricultural exemption"
March 03
Syngenta settles lawsuit with Polonica International; defendants to exit
melon business, transfer program and pay royalties
January 03
Legal protection of biotechnological inventions: European Commission
discusses progress with Member States and establishes expert group
November 02
Conclusions of
Dámaso Ruíz-Jarabo, Advocate General at the European Court of
Justice, in the matter "Saatgut-Treuhanverwaltungs GmbH vs.
Werner Jäger" (in German,
Spanich and Italian)
October 02
European Commission publishes first report on biotech patents directive
July 02
Allegations against Monsanto and others by Syngenta baseless
Syngenta files suit to enforce biotechnology patents
March 02
Conclusions de Monsieur l'Avocat général Ruiz-Jarabo dans
l'affaire C-305/00
Schlussanträge des Generalanwalts D. Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer in der
Rechtssache C-305/00
Conclusiones del Abogado General Sr. Ruiz-Jarabo en el Asunto
C-305/00
(Christian Schulin / Saatgut-Treuhandverwaltungs GmbH)
November 01
Court of Appeals affirms
victory for Aventis CropScience on glyphosate tolerant corn
La Cour d'Appel du
Tribunal Fédéral américain donne raison à AVENTIS CropScience dans
l'affaire du brevet du maïs tolérant au Glyphosate
July 01
Decision
of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will not affect Bayer's claim
against Syngenta's thiamethoxam
Entscheidung des U.S.-Patentamts hat keinen Einfluss auf Bayers
Patentverletzungsklage gegen Syngentas Thiamethoxam
May 01
Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc., (U.S.)
has filed a lawsuit against Bayer AG
February 01
Aventis
CropScience patent for genetically improved plants finally approved by
the European Patent Office
L’office Européen des Brevets accorde à Aventis CropScience un
brevet pour des plantes modifiées par génie génétique
Europäisches Patentamt bestätigt Patent von Aventis CropScience
September 00
Unanimous
jury verdict finds Aventis inventors should be added to DeKalb patents
DEKALB
will seek to have Advisory Jury decision overturned in patent lawsuit
brought by Aventis Cropscience
March 98
Novartis Seeds receives Plant Variety
Protection certificates
December 97
DEKALB Genetics Granted European Patent
for Corn Transformation
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