Plant varieties, breeders and farmers
- Plant-variety protection is distinct from patenting plants
- New-variety registration tests novelty, distinctiveness, uniformity and stability
- Variety registration confers qualified commercial rights on its holder
- Research use of a registered variety differs from repeated commercial parental-line use
- A farmer who breeds a new variety may seek protection as a breeder
- Farmers’ seed-use rights exclude selling branded seed of a protected variety