India has adopted a sui generis system for protection of plant varieties as Plant Breeder’s Rights (PBRs) under the Plant Variety Protection and Farmer’s Rights Act, 2001. Given the unique complexity of the rights to be protected under this system, clients have come to rely upon our firm’s focused experts who have cross domain knowledge and experience in this area. In fact, our firm is one of very few in India who handles such matters.
Our advice has included providing opinions on availability of registration of a variety; conducting searches in the official journals of plant varieties; preparing and filing applications for registration of a variety; assisting in conducting DUS tests; prosecution and obtaining registrations of varieties; opposing and defending the grant of registration of varieties; renewals of registrations; licensing related to plant varieties and all related advisory under the Plant Variety Protection and Farmer’s Rights Act, 2001.