October 27, 2025

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Deutschland - Umfrage zu Nachbaugebühren: Zeit für ein neues System bei Saatgut? (Agrar heute)

October 2, 2025

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Balancing innovation and farmers’ rights: the role of plant variety protection

September 25, 2025

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Ghana - The Registrar-General calls for the enforcement of the Plant Variety Protection law to protect the horticultural industry (BusinessGhana)

September 22, 2025

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Nouvelles techniques génomiques : l'Union française des semenciers favorable à la brevetabilité sous conditions (Réussir)

September 16, 2025

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China pushes for stronger crop breeding innovation, stricter variety management (AgTech Navigator)

September 4, 2025

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The institutional responses to new plant variety protection in China in the context of Big Data (Frontiers)

August 18, 2025

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Canada - Draft regulations aim to strengthen, clarify and simplify Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights system (BLG)

August 12, 2025

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New Zealand - Horticultural sector braced for serious plant variety rights fees threat (Farmers Weekly)

July 11, 2025

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European Union - Cultivating transparency and fair access to patented traits in the seed sector - A new industry-born initiative aims to stimulate innovation in the agri-food sector in a way that is beneficial to both small and bigger breeders - The Parliament held an event with the Agricultural Crop Licensing Platform (ACLP) to find out more (The Parliament)

June 30, 2025

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Kritische Schwelle - Neue Züchtungstechniken: Patente hemmen Innovation (Top Agrar)

June 17, 2025

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Netherlands - "Resistance against patent on classical breeding resurfaces due to ToBRFV" (HortiDaily)

June 6, 2025

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Edição gênica avança, mas enfrenta vácuo jurídico sobre propriedade intelectual

May 19, 2025

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China - New trends for patent examination? Draft amendments to the guidelines of patent examination (Lexology)

May 5, 2025

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China releases Regulations on the Protection of New Plant Varieties (The National Law Review)

April 25, 2025

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Counterfeit seeds hurt farmers, undermine food security (Pakistan Observer)

April 4, 2025

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Building intellectual property capacity across nations: ICRISAT’s South-South training sparks cross-country learning

April 1, 2025

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Patentstreit um Braugerste (BauernZeitung)

March 24, 2025

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China’s Supreme People’s Court releases fifth batch of typical cases of seed industry intellectual property protection (The National Law Review)

March 4, 2025

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Chinese Economic Espionage: The Insider Threat with Scott Baucum, Vice President of Special Compliance and Asset Protection at Bayer U.S. (Illicit Edge)

February 19, 2025

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Mais de 1,4 mil toneladas de sementes de soja são apreendidas por suspeita de pirataria no Rio Grande do Sul - Prejuízo estimado é de quase R$ 20 milhões (CropLife Brasil)

January 10, 2025

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KWS defends innovation in sugarbeet - Due to legal complaints driven by United Beet Seeds BV, KWS takes a clear position on intellectual property related to its CR+ trait in sugarbeet

November 4, 2024

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Cultivating cash: considering royalties under Canada's Plant Breeders' Rights Act (Dentons)

November 1, 2024

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Cultivating cash: Considering royalties under Canada's Plant Breeders' Rights Act (Lexology)

October 25, 2024

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Advocating for a stronger plant breeders’ rights system: Euroseeds endorses essentially derived varieties in modern breeding

October 24, 2024

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Changes possible to international plant gene sharing treaty - Fees for accessing global gene banks could bring additional costs to researchers, farmers (Manitoba Co-operator)

October 22, 2024

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Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejects plant patent challenge, citing genetic uncertainty (PatentlyO)

October 7, 2024

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México - Irrupción de semillas piratas desincentiva la inversión en investigación y desarrollo (El Economista)

October 4, 2024

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Debate about ownership of gene-editing techniques; researchers suggest solutions
Discussie over eigendomsrecht rond gentechnieken; onderzoekers komen met oplossingen

September 23, 2024

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En biotecnología, “perdemos por goleada el partido con Brasil y Estados Unidos” - El gerente de marca DonMario, Patricio Munilla, destacó la importancia de fortalecer la propiedad intelectual de la semilla en el plano de la biotecnología y la genética (InfoCampo)

September 9, 2024

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India - Industry bats for strong enforcement of intellectual property rights in seeds to ensure food security (Agriculture Post)