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 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)

August 6, 2024

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Inari Agriculture can't sink patent case over corn seed (Law 360)

April 29, 2024

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U.S. biotech leadership is rooted in strong intellectual property protection

January 19, 2024

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Saskatchewan, Canada - Variety use agreements prompt spirited debate (The Western Producer)

November 6, 2023

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Breeders welcome the adoption of the new Explanatory Notes on Essentially Derived Varieties by the UPOV Council 

August 15, 2023

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Two recent U.S. Federal Circuit opinions illustrate risk of product demonstrations for patent validity - In re Wingen: When is disclosure of ornamental plants invalidating? (Cooley)

May 15, 2023

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U.S Department of Agriculture and U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announce new partnership to beef up intellectual property processes (Reuters)

May 11, 2023

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Counterfeit products, real problems

February 17, 2023

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Outstanding in their field: meet Ashley Balchin and Renée Cloutier, CFIA plant breeders’ rights examiners
Exceptionnelles dans leur domaine : rencontrez Ashley Balchin et Renée Cloutier, examinatrices de la protection des obtentions végétales de l’ACIA

January 19, 2023

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Seed prices have soared—Is intellectual property the problem? How intellectual property, regulation, and research can make agriculture more competitive (The Breakthrough Institute)

December 15, 2022

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Dealers have a responsibility to seed companies (Growing Produce)

December 14, 2022

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Concentration and IPRs in the Seed Industry: a View From the USA

December 6, 2022

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USDA’s plant variety protection system embraces transgenic and gene edited plants (JD Supra)

October 17, 2022

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Farmers urge intellectual property system changes as U.S. Department of Agriculture prepares competition report (Bloomberg Law)

September 22, 2022

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“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 

June 22, 2022

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USA - Seed industry debates consolidation, intellectual property protections (Agri-Pulse)

January 27, 2022

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‘Brown-bagging’ crop seed affects producers as well as research advances - Texas A&M AgriLife Foundation Seed increases promotion of certified seed

December 7, 2021

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USA - How are new varieties of plants registered and why? The final step in breeding programs is registering their new variety with the USDA

June 22, 2021

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Canada - Plant Breeders’ Rights: protect yourself with knowledge

May 24, 2021

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International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture releases inventory on farmers' rights - Unique collection of best practices from around the world

April 26, 2021

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Three ways in which protecting intellectual property can inspire innovation

The importance of initellectual property in plant science

April 7, 2021

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High-level overview of intellectual property protection for the U.S. cannabis industry (JD Supra)

February 15, 2021

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Are hemp plant breeders ramping up on utility patents to protect novel varieties? (Hemp Industry Daily)

December 17, 2020

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New APBREBES publication - Focus on plant variety protection: A compilation of selected literature on the impact of the UPOV Convention, alternative sui generis PVP laws and the effect on farmers’ rights
Gros plan sur la protection des obtentions végétales :Une compilation de publications sélectionnées surles impacts de la convention UPOV, les lois alternativessui generis de protection des obtentionsvégétales et l’effet sur les droits des agriculteurs
La protección de las variedades vegetales en el punto de mira:Compilación de literatura seleccionada sobre las repercusiones del convenio de la UPOV, las leyes alternativas sui generis de protección de las variedades vegetales y el efecto en los derechos del agricultor

November 18, 2020

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Association for Plant Breeding for the Benefit of Society (APBREBES) report from the 2020 UPOV Session

October 16, 2020

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CIOPORA video release: Understand essentially derived variety concept in 90 seconds