Presidency

Designing an appropriate intellectual property strategy is essential in the Agri-food sector. In the EU, innovators and custodians of tradition count on several tools at their disposal when naming their products, but: how to make the most out of them? 

This webinar organized in collaboration with the European IP Helpdesk will begin with an overview about the nature of plant variety denominations and their interplay with trademarks and geographical indications. The speaker will present some examples of their coexistence in the plant-related marketplace and will also provide

The perpetual changes of societal, economic and environmental conditions constantly urges plant breeding actors to provide growers and consumers with suitable solutions to an increasing number of challenges especially within the Agri-food Sector. Science offers support to the breeding sector through new genomic techniques (NGTs) and the European Union co-legislators endeavour to keep up with a technology in constant evolution in the intellectual property sector and beyond.

This webinar organized in cooperation with the European IP Helpdesk provides an introduction and illustrate

The plant variety protection awareness raising seminar, jointly organised by IP Key China, the Community Plant Variety Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) of the People’s Republic of China, took place on 8 November 2021.

Representatives of the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) shared with the 130+ participants from the European Union and China the latest developments in Plant Variety Protection. After that, stakeholders of the plant and breeding