How Do I Become a Plant Breeder?

The protection of new plant varieties is also called "plant breeder's right". It is a form of intellectual property protection like patents, trademarks, and copyrights. The unit or individual that has completed breeding enjoys exclusive monopoly rights over its authorized varieties. No unit or individual may, without the permission of the owner of the variety right, produce or sell the propagation material of the authorized variety for commercial purposes, and may not reuse the propagation material of the authorized variety for the production of another variety for the commercial purpose.

Protection of new plant varieties

The protection of new plant varieties is also called "plant breeder's right".

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The protection of new plant varieties in China is carried out by two departments, the State Forestry Administration and the Ministry of Agriculture. According to the division of work between the two departments on the protection of new plant varieties, the State Forestry Administration is responsible for forest trees, bamboo, woody vines, woody ornamental plants (including woody flowers), fruit trees (dried fruit parts), and woody oils, beverages, spices, wood Protection of new plant varieties such as this medicinal material. At present, the protection of plant variety rights in China is limited to the propagation materials of plant varieties. The protection of plant breeder's rights is not the plant variety itself, but the rights that plant breeders should enjoy.

April 23, 2009 marks the tenth anniversary of China's entry into the International Union for the Protection of New Plant Products (UPOV). According to statistics, as of March 31, 2009, acceptance

With regard to the protection of crop property rights for people's livelihood, some large multinational groups use the protection of property rights to protect huge economic benefits and crack down on original crop breeding and production behaviors. For this reason, how to identify improper protection has become a difficult problem. Column: Can the original breeding methods in the United States be attacked by the big group? Can the breeding monopoly behavior be left without protection, that is, the contamination of neighboring crop seeds during the cultivation of genetically modified products, then the neighboring crops as seeds cannot be regarded as infringing intellectual property rights protection ^{[3 ]}

Breeders should submit corresponding application documents. The contents of the document include: a request for a new plant variety right, a description and a photo.

After the documents have been prepared, applicants applying for the rights to new varieties of forestry plants can apply directly to the State Forestry Administration or entrust an agency designated by the State Forestry Administration to apply on their behalf. For breeders who apply for variety rights, they can submit the application documents directly to the New Plant Protection Office of the State Forestry Administration, or they can mail the application documents through the post office.

After the application documents are submitted, the protected variety applied by the applicant will be announced in a written announcement or online issued by the State Forestry Administration. If no one challenges the variety during the announcement period, the applicant will be granted the right to protect the new variety.