 | Thérèse Blanchet, Risto Piipponen, Maria Westman-Clément - 1994 - 532 pages
...D, IRL, I, Varieties of Plants of a Dec. NL, N, E, S, CH, and 1961' UK) Creates a new Union called the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants ('UPOV') situated in the same building as WIPO— establishes a system of protection for breeders of new plant... | |
 | Margriet F. Caswell, Keith Owen Fuglie, Cassandra A. Klotz - 1994 - 60 pages
...property protection by developing countries (Govaere, 1991). Most industrialized nations have signed the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), which took effect in 1968. UPOV establishes uniform plant protection regulations among member nations... | |
 | Rachel Frid - 1995 - 450 pages
...positions of OECD countries that are not members of the Community. 181 The Community is an observer at the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), whose constitution was recently amended to allow the Community to become a member. The Community has... | |
 | Vicente Sanchez, Calestous Juma - 1995 - 383 pages
...local populations but the original germplasm is developed via biotechnology and protected later on. The International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) has recently approved a new draft of its Convention — touching on the access to plant varieties protected... | |
 | Jenny Aitken-Christie, T. Kozai, M.A.L Smith - 1995 - 592 pages
...action taken. Like patents, there is a convention period within which the applicant may file overseas. The International Union for the Protection of New varieties of Plants (UPOV) agreement states that despite any criteria as to novelty in member countries, an application can be... | |
 | DIANE Publishing Company - 1995 - 32 pages
...patents is governed by the rather unclear and limited research exemption. These provisions are based on the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) Convention. Under a new version of UPOV (1991), the treaty restricts the farmers' privilege but leaves... | |
 | Michael Bowman, Catherine Redgwell - 1996 - 350 pages
...forms the new plant breed. As a means of protecting plant breeders' rights at the international level, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), an intergovernmental organisation, established the International Convention for the Protection of New... | |
 | Jeroen van Wijk - 1998 - 131 pages
...purposes in order to describe and identify new varieties of mainly, agricultural crops. In 1961, when the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) was founded, France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands had already established... | |
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States became a member of the International Union for the Pro-tection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV). 
