Introduction to UPOV'91 - Slides in PDF
The plant variety protection awareness raising seminar, jointly organised by IP Key China, the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) and the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) of the People’s Republic of China, took place on 8 November 2021.
As of 8 November 2021, the Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia (MyIPO) has made its industrial designs available to the DESIGNview search tools.
With the addition of more than 39.000 industrial designs from MyIPO, DESIGNview provides information and access to more than 18.2 million designs in total.
Since the introduction of DESIGNview on 19 November 2012, the tool has served more than 6,8 million searches from 163 different countries, with the UK, Germany and China among the most frequent users.
Seminar on the Detection and Investigation of IPR Infringements in Online and Physical Marketplaces
The Agreement between the European Union and the Government of the People’s Republic of China on cooperation on, and protection of, geographical indications (GIs) entered into force on 1 March 2021, which demonstrates the EU and China’s strong determination to protect the interests of GI rights holders.
The activity sought to promote UPOV 1991 accession of countries in SEA by supporting the creation of a regional platform that would reduce the administrative burden for EU breeders to apply for protection of their PVRs and improve the registration procedures in the participating countries. The activity took place on 18 January 2022. It was a closed session and participation was limited to PVP Officials from the SEA countries.
IP Key South-East Asia (SEA) Project, in collaboration with the Community Plant Variety Protection Office (CPVO), organised the ‘Webinar on Plant Variety Protection and UPOV 1991’ on Monday, 17 January 2022. This activity is a follow-up to prior activities on plant variety protection aimed at promoting effective plant variety protection systems in SEA in order to support the UPOV 1991 Act accession of countries in the region. The activity highlighted the benefits that PVP brings to socio-economic development and its contribution to agricultural sustainability.