Seminar on the Enforcement of Plant Variety Rights – Rome 30 May 2013

Breeders are facing difficulties when enforcing their Community and national plant variety rights (PVRs). An important reason for this phenomenon is the insufficient knowledge of the applicable legislation amongst breeders, lawyers, prosecutors and judges. For this reason, the Community Plant Variety Office, in close co-operation with the breeders’ organizations decided to organize seminars on the enforcement of plant variety rights in Brussels (2005), Warsaw (2006), Madrid (2007), Romania and Bulgaria (2008), Athens (2010) and Hamburg (2011).

As a follow up, a seminar is now organized in Rome on 30 May 2013 in cooperation with the Ministry of the Economic Development - Italian Patent and Trademarks Office and breeders organizations.  

This seminar aims at sharing information and experience relating to the enforcement of plant variety rights in Italy and possibly other EU Member States.

Who should attend ?

This seminar is designed for all intellectual property practitioners specialized in plant variety protection, in particular:

> Breeders and representatives of the breeders’ organizations

> Seed producers

> Growers and propagators

> Farmers
> Lawyers
> Judges
> Officials responsible for legislation on the enforcement of plant variety rights
> Representatives from examinations offices

> Representatives of associations active in agriculture and horticulture

> Persons involved in the trade of plant varieties

Download the final agenda and presentations: en.

Download the CPVO Brochure in italian.

Download the italian version of this announcement.

At the occasion of the UPOV 50th anniversary, the European Union organized, on the 21st of October 2011 in Geneva, a lunch seminar concerning "15 years of supranational cooperation in plant variety protection: the European experience".

You can find hereafter three presentations made on this occasion:

• L. Miko - 15 years of Plant Varieties Protection
• M. Ekvad - The implementation of a regional plant variety right system
• E. Gacek - National systems and a regional plant variety right system run in parallel

GEVES, INRA and CPVO are jointly organising a Fruit Open Day in the INRA GAFL research units in Avignon-Montfavet (Vaucluse, France) and Bellegarde (Gard, France) on Wednesday 15 June 2011.

This open day is aimed at breeders, their representatives and examination offices in charge of fruit DUS testing in the European Union. It will allow an exchange of views on essential aspects in relation to fruit DUS testing and in particular on the following issues:

• latest developments in DUS testing procedures;
• presentation of investigation in view of a possible decrease of costs in DUS testing;
• optimal use of variety collections, including presentation of conclusions of the R&D project on management of peach reference collections;
• the possible use of molecular techniques for variety identification.

This open day will also provide the opportunity to present ongoing DUS trials of peach and apricot species.