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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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CANADA
Plant Breeders' Rights

 

USA
Seed Innovation
and Protection Alliance

 

WORLDWIDE
International Union for the Protection
of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)

 

 


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