March 20, 2024
UPOV updates explanatory note on essentially derived varieties (EDVs) (Morrison Foerster)
February 6, 2024
UPOV releases explanatory notes further defining protection for essentially derived varieties (Cooley)
January 24, 2024
Landmark memorandum of understanding aigned between the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) and the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) to enhance plant variety rights
November 6, 2023
Breeders welcome the adoption of the new Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties by the UPOV Council
UPOV Council holds its Annual Session
July 14, 2023
Nigeria: Understanding intellectual property (IP) and enforcement of IP laws in Science (Mondaq)
February 3, 2023
Les droits de la variété marocaine Nadorcott confirmés par la plus haute instance européenne de la protection des variétés végétales (MAP)
December 12, 2022
Nigeria - Seed legislation will enhance sector’s development, says the Director General, National Agricultural Seed Council (Blueprint)
December 1, 2022
The cooperation between GEVES and OAPI, the African Intellectual Property Organization, ends with a 3rd course in Anjou
November 10, 2022
Tanzania - Business Registrations and Licensing Agency (BRELA) to elevate growth of intellectual property rights (IPP Media)
October 5, 2022
South Africa - New plant improvement act and plant breeders’ rights regulations look forward to an age of industrial hemp (Engineering News)
September 22, 2022
“We will not achieve food security without reaching consensus on Farmers’ Rights and Breeders’ Rights” - Speech by Arthur Santosh Attavar, ISF Vice President, at the Opening Ceremony of the ninth session of the Governing Body of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
August 15, 2022
Exploring benefits of Plant Variety Protection system in Nigeria (Blueprint)
June 30, 2022
Visit by OAPI (Organisation Africaine de la Propriété Intellectuelle) at Naktuinbouw to raise awareness of the Plant Breeders' Rights system Bezoeken OAPI om kennis kwekersrecht te vergroten
June 10, 2022
Kenya Seed Company and Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service scale up war on fake seed (Star)
January 27, 2022
Release of new version of UPOV PRISMA Nouvelle version d’UPOV PRISMA disponible Freigabe einer neuer Version von UPOV PRISMA Nueva versión de UPOV PRISMA disponible
December 21, 2021
Nigeria - National Centre for Genetic Resources and Biotechnology takes campaign on resilient seeds to Kishi, Oyo State (Tribune)
November 15, 2021
Celebrating advent of plants varieties protection law in Nigeria (Vanguard News)
November 8, 2021
Ghana - Ensuring food security: Plant Variety Protection Regulation to be passed (Graphic)
October 25, 2021
Nigeria - The Plants Varieties Protection Act 2021 (Guardian)
October 22, 2021
Côte d'Ivoire - Séminaire régional de sensibilisation des acteurs de la filière du secteur semencier des états membres de l’Organisation africaine de la propriété intellectuelle (OAPI) (Abidjan,net)
October 20, 2021
Nigeria’s plant variety protection: in line with international intellectual property norms (Managing IP)
October 14, 2021
New APBREBES study “Searching for flexibility - Why parties to the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention have not acceded to the 1991 Act” explores the debates around plant variety protection in nine countries that are parties to UPOV 78
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