NEWS SOURCES

• Anti-Infrigement Bureay for Intellectual Property Rights on Plant Materials (AIB)
• International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
  • UPOV publications
  • UPOV events
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • WIPO GOLD- A free public resource which provides a one-stop gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data. It aims to facilitate universal access to IP information.
• Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA)
• Intellectual Property Watch
• CropLife International
  • Intellectual property

DATABASES

• USDA/ERS Agricultural biotechnology intellectual property
• FreePatentsOnline search engine
• World Intellectual Property Organization upgrades its online database, PatentScope (April 06)
• New version of the U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database (August 04)

PRINT PUBLICATIONS

• ipHandbook of Best Practices
• OECD Patent Statistics Manual (2009)
• Seed Wars: Controversies and Cases on Plant Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property (2008)

POSITION PAPERS

• ISF position on disclosure of origin in intellectual property protection applications (August 03)
• Position Paper of the International Seed Federation on Genetic Use Restriction Technologies (GURTs) (June 2003)

• Clarification concerning the breeder’s exemption in the 1978 and 1991 Acts of the UPOV Convention (Dec 04)
• ISAAA Pocket K No. 9 Intellectual Property Rights and Agricultural Biotechnology (July 04)
• New initiative helps researchers wend way through intellectual property maze (July 03)

USDA/AMS Publications

• Items of Interest in Seed - April 2008
• Items of Interest in Seed - October 2007

Worldwide

• Managing Intellectual Property (The Global IP Resource)
• Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA)
• World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
  • WIPO GOLD- A free public resource which provides a one-stop gateway to WIPO’s global collections of searchable IP data. It aims to facilitate universal access to IP information.

Africa

• African Intellectual Property Organisation / Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle (AIPO)
• African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO)

Australia

• Advisory Council on Intellectual Property

  • Review of Patentable Subject Matter

  • Review of post-grant Patent Enforcement Strategies

  • Review of enforcement of Plant Breeder's Rights (PBR)

• Australian Plant Breeder's Rights: A Guide for Grain Growers (June 06)
• Australian Centre for Intellectual Property in Agriculture (ACIPA)
  Plant Breeder's Rights Act 1994
  - http://scaleplus.law.gov.au/html/pasteact/1/618/top.htm 
  - complete act in PDF format
  - about plant breeder's rights: http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/pbr/index.shtml 
  - understanding plant breeder's rights: http://www.acipa.edu.au/frame_pbr.html

Canada

• Plant Breeders Rights and the Seeds Act relating to the sale of seed - FAQs (July 2008)
• New report offers "road map to the future" of crop variety registration in Canada (March 05)
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency factsheet: Farmers ability to save seed produced from protected varieties (December 04)
• List of Varieties which are Registered in Canada, [ PDF (786 kb)] 2009-01-01
• List of Varieties which have been granted Restricted Registration  
• List of Varieties with Novel Traits and Their Progeny Registered under the Canada Seeds Act and Regulations  
• List of Registered Varieties by Crop Type with Canadian Representatives 

Chile

• Fundación para la Innovación Agraria facilita acceso a patentes agrícolas (July 07)

China

• Revision of Plant Variety Protection Regulations in China (February 08)
• China updates plant variety testing procedures (October 07)
• Options for protecting plant varieties in the Peoples Republic of China (May 07)
• Planting seeds - Administrative measures for grass seeds (March 06)

Ethiopia

• Ethiopia enacts laws for plant breeders' rights and biodiversity (March 06)

European Union

• The phantom menace of gene patents (March 2009)
• Breeders encounter various problems when trying to enforce their European Community plant variety rights, but the situation is not hopeless (October 05)
• European Community Plant Variety Office celebrates its 10th anniversary (June 05)
• Summary report of the November 24, 2004 meeting of the standing committee on European Community plant variety rights (November 04)
• European Court of Justice: Holders of Community plant variety rights are free to choose the legal form they wish to take (March 04)
• Auskunftspflicht bei Z-Saatgutkauf - Europäischer Gerichtshof urteilt zur Auskunft beim Nachbau
  - European Commission publishes first report on biotech patents directive (October 02)

France

• Les semences de ferme en France et la loi (October 07)
• Lutte contre la contrefaçon des semences fermières (October 07)
• République Française: Loi n° 2004-1338 du 8 décembre 2004 relative à la protection des inventions biotechnologiques (December 04)

Germany

• Blatt für Sortenwesen
• Beschreibende Sortenlisten
  • Datenbankabfrage Beschreibende Sortenlisten
  • Vom Bundessortenamt herausgegebene Beschreibende Sortenlisten
  • Bestellung der Beschreibenden Sortenlisten
  • Download der Beschreibenden Sortenlisten im PDF-Format

• German biopatent law passed (December 04)
• Bundesgerichtshof bestätigt Saatguttreuhandverwaltung (May 04)

Hungary

• Central Agricultural Office (Variety testing and registration)
• Hungarian Patent Office

India

• Transgenic crops and IP rights (India) Manoj Kumar Singh, International Law Office (December 2010)
• India issues new regulations to protect plant varieties and farmers' rights (January 07)
• Indian Council of Agricultural Research guidelines for intellectual property management and technology transfer and commercialization (September 06)
• India's Patents Act amended (January 05)

Ireland

• The Official Journal of National Plant Variety Rights - January 2009

Korea

• Korea Seed & Variety Service
  Responsible for: protecting plant variety and ensuring the legal protection of the producers of new seeds; establishing a national variety list and the application of variety for the PVP of agricultural crops, highly significant for stable agricultural production; implementing a DUS test and a VCU test to ensure the applied variety of NL and R&D activities for characteristic survey techniques; securing the production and supply of superior seeds for core agricultural crops such as rice and barley; and undertaking circulation inspections of the seeds to prevent their illegal distribution.
  - Operation of the Plant Variety Protection System
  - Requirements for Plant Variety Protection
  - Plant Variety Protection Rights
  - Procedure of Plant Variety Protection
  - The Procedure of Application to Registration through Examination

Malaysia

• Malaysia's Protection of New Plant Varieties Act 2004 to be enforced in 2007 (November 06)

Mexico

• Nueva ley de semillas en México (April 07)

Morocco

• Plant variety protection in Morocco (September 2008)

Pakistan

• Seed registration and certification system in Pakistan (2003 ?)

Paraguay

• Asociación Paraguaya de Obtentores Vegetales (PARPOV)

Philippines

• Variety accreditation and biosafety guidelines in The Philippines (November 06)
• Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights training center to boost ag research in The Philippines (Aug 05)
• Philippine Plant Variety Protection Act signed into law (July 02)

South Africa

• An Overview of Plant Variety Protection in South Africa (February 06)

Spain

• ANOVE, Asociación Nacional de Obtentores Vegetales
  - Propriedad intelectual - La obtención vegetal
• Oficina Española de Variedades Vegetales
  • Catálogo comunitario de variedades protegidas
  • Catálogo común de variedades comerciales
  • Lista de cultivos por certificación OCDE (Internacional OECD Standardisation)
• 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
  (June 07)

United Kingdom

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)

• Plant Variety Rights Office and Seeds Division
  - Plant Variety and Seeds Gazette (published monthly)
  - PVS: Plant Breeders' Rights
  Food and Environment Research Agency
  - Plant Breeders' Rights
  - National listing
    Guide to National Listing of Varieties of Agricultural and Vegetable Crops in the UK (PDF 150 KB)

United States

• U.S. Department of State
  • Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
   
• American Seed Trade Association creates first comprehensive Guide to State Seed Regulations (December 06)
• Producers need to understand plant variety protection laws, says North Dakota State Seed Department deputy commissioner (April 06)
• USDA/ERS report: Government Patenting and Technology Transfer (March 06)
• New version of the U.S. Agricultural Biotechnology Intellectual Property database (August 04)
• Pew Initiative analysis finds checkerboard state legislation in the U.S. (May 04)
   
• USDA - Items of Interest in Seed - April 2008
• USDA - Items of Interest in Seed - October 2007

Vietnam

• Plants varieties protected by new intellectual property rights decree in Vietnam (October 06)
• Intellectual property rights on plant varieties in Vietnam (June 06)
• Plant patents: public interest versus private profit - University of California Davis helps author initiative to ensure access to patented technologies (September 03)
• Public-Sector Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture (PIPRA): New initiative helps researchers wend way through intellectual property maze (June 03)

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