PLANT VARIETY OFFICE
March 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLIN an increasingly borderless world, the power of international intellectual property conventions is growing ever stronger and agriculture is being affected by this trend as much as mining and IT.Take new crop varieties. In the EU, since 1995 Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) has been established. Previously, a breeder or an innovative farmer producing a new variety wanting to stop it being copied across the EU had to submit an application to each Member State.Under the CPVO system, only one application is required to obtain the same level of ...
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