IP Key LA focuses first activity of 2020 on plant variety protection
As part of the 2020 Annual Work Programme, IP Key LA joined forces with the CPVO, GEVES, SENADI and UPOV to hold three events in Quito, Ecuador.
The first event was a face-to-face workshop, ‘PVP Licensing Lab’, which aimed to increase knowledge about plant variety protection (PVP) licensing among public research institutes and small and medium-sized private breeders.
The next event organised was the first seminar for the authorities, as well as for the private sector and academia, on the enforcement of plant variety rights (PVRs) in the region. The CPVO and UPOV, as well as experts from Europe and Latin America, delivered presentations on PVR enforcement, and participating countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay) shared their experiences.
This seminar, as the first dedicated exclusively to the topic of PVR enforcement in the region, provided an opportunity to identify both the difficulties and current practices of breeders in Europe and Latin America, and to discuss the challenges facing the region in the fight against the unauthorised use of PVRs.
IP Key LA and its partners also organised a workshop for technical experts from Latin America on the GAIA software, which is expected to improve PVP authorities’ DUS testing procedures. This workshop, which was led by two experts from GEVES, allowed participants to improve their knowledge of the tools provided by GEVES for facilitating the DUS examination and disseminating practices promoted by the CPVO in Europe.
These events are extremely important as Latin America is the source of many agricultural exports. Promoting PVP will enable breeders to obtain protection and avoid the widespread imitation and usurpation of PVRs on international markets.
- Curso modular on-line sobre Licenciamiento de Variedades Vegetales
- La observancia de los derechos de los obtentores vegetales a nivel internacional: el Convenio de la UPOV
- La observancia de los derechos de los obtentores vegetales a nivel europeo
- Módulo 1: Cuestiones generales relativas a la observancia de los derechos de los obtentores vegetales
- Dificultades para lograr una observancia efectiva de los derechos de obtentores vegetales - Perspectiva desde el Sector Académico
- Cuestiones generales relativas a la observancia de los derechos de los obtentores vegetales
- Observancia de derechos en variedades vegetales en Brasil
- Agenda - Seminario Internacional sobre la Observancia de los Derechos de Obtentores Vegetales
- Seminario Internacional sobre la Observancia de los Derechos de Obtentores Vegetales - Indecopi Peru
- Observancia de Derechos de Obtentor en Paraguay
- Desafíos para lograr una efectiva observancia de los derechos de obtentores vegetales
- Observancia de los Derechos de Obtentores Vegetales - INASE Uruguay
- Cuestiones generales relativas a la observancia de los derechos de los obtentores vegetales
- Seminario Internacional sobre la Observancia de los Derechos de Obtentores Vegetales - Acciones y Experiencias en Uruguay
- Desafíos actuales y posibles medidas para lograr una efectiva observancia de los derechos de obtentores vegetales