September 9, 2024

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India - Industry bats for strong enforcement of intellectual property rights in seeds to ensure food security (Agriculture Post)

Indian seed industry advocates for stronger intellectual property rights enforcement (Rural Voice)

August 9, 2024

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Farm-saved seed, royalty rates, and innovation in plant breeding (American Journal of Agricultural Economics)

July 10, 2024

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Australian plant breeders' rights system undergoes major overhaul (ABC)

June 24, 2024

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New Zealand - Farm-saved seed honour system ready to roll (Farmers Weekly)

June 21, 2024

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Plant variety rights in Vietnam: How do they compare to UPOV? (Luật Minh Khuê)

May 1, 2024

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Advancing global progress through IP awareness and collaboration - ICRISAT shines the spotlight on India's intellectual property landscape

April 22, 2024

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Plant variety protection - Procedural infirmities, not impacting eligibility of applicant/application for registration, are not fatal (Lexology)

March 28, 2024

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“For breeders around the world the combination of the 2022 China Seed Law and the Hainan FTZ offers exciting opportunities" (Fresh Plaza)

November 20, 2023

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Australia - Ensuring long term investment in wheat breeding through End Point Royalties (The Land)

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 25, 2023

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Increase in plant variety rights applications bodes well for New Zealand agriculture

July 24, 2023

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Cultivating innovation: an in-depth look at New Zealand's plant variety rights landscape under the PVR Act 2022 (Spruson & Ferguson)

July 4, 2023

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The potential impact of UPOV 1991 on the Malaysian seed sector, farmers, and their practices

June 29, 2023

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Australia - End Point Royalty System passes 25-year milestone

May 19, 2023

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India: Overview of Protection Of Plant Varieties And Farmers' Rights Act, 2001 (Mondaq)

May 8, 2023

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Authorities must keep up the fight against counterfeit seeds (South China Morning Post)

April 12, 2023

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China food security: why counterfeit seeds are stalling innovation in the agricultural sector (South China Morning Post)

March 29, 2023

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University of Queensland papers proposing reforms to Australia's plant breeder's rights regime (Lexology)

January 18, 2023

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State People's Court of China: Parents of hybrid varieties may be protected as trade secrets (Lexology)

December 7, 2022

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New Zealand - Plant breeders welcome better protections given by law change (Otago Daily Times)

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 10, 2022

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Taiwan - Government should investigate illegal sale of alleged Chinese seeds: lawmakers (Taipei Times)

April 12, 2022

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The reasons why Indonesia should not (be forced to) join UPOV

January 28, 2022

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China’s new seed law with intellectual property protection over plant variety (Rouse)

November 24, 2021

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New Zealand - Select Committee report on Plant Variety Rights Bill released (Lexology)

November 16, 2021

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Australia - Spotlight on end point royalties as harvest ramps up (Farm Weekly)

November 5, 2021

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Significant times For New Zealand plant breeding (Scoop)

October 14, 2021

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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

October 5, 2021

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Searching for flexibility - Why parties to the 1978 Act of the UPOV Convention have not acceded to the 1991 Act