Deadline: 18 October 2017
The Wageningen UR Centre for Development Innovation (CDI) is inviting applications for its short term course on Plant variety protection from 18 June 2018 to 29 June 2018 in The Netherlands.
The protection of the rights of plant breeders is an important stimulus for the development of better plant varieties. The possibility to claim intellectual property rights on a variety, gives a breeder the exclusive rights to exploit it and to prevent others from doing so illegally.
Course Subjects
The following subjects will be introduced through lectures, discussions and working groups:
- legal aspects – legal framework, requirements of the international Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV), other systems, patents, regulations relating to genetic resource use;
- institutional aspects – procedures and administration, organisational setup, variety registration systems, collaboration and testing;
- technical aspects – the principle of Distinctness, Uniformity and Stability (DUS), practical DUS-testing, UPOV guidelines, field testing, biochemical/molecular techniques, statistics, data analysis, reporting, variety denomination;
- Exploitation of plant breeders rights – enforcing rights, royalty collection, farm saved seed.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants have a position in the variety registration system or have a position that will give them such responsibilities in the near future;
- Preferably applicants are from a country that has recently developed a plant variety protection law or that is currently in the process of developing such legislation.
How to Apply
Applications can be accessed online through the website. Applicants must first have to create an account on the website and register themselves for the course.
Eligible Countries: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bhutan, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cuba, Djibouti, DR Congo, Egypt, Georgia, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Macedonia, Mongolia, Morocco, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Syria , Thailand, Tunisia, Zimbabwe.
For more information, please visit Plant variety protection.