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Article: New Plant Varieties Under Protection in China
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- March 20, 2001
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The violation of right to grow new varieties of plants, like
corn, has been paid much attention to in China with around 15 cases
taken to court now, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The Chinese Government had received 252 applications for
protecting new plant varieties by March 15 this year since it
started this work in April 1999, which included applications from a
Japanese company and Dutch company.
The first 38 applications were approved in April last year, the
Ministry source said.
China has launched the regulations on the protection of new plant
varieties, a kind of intellectual properties like brands and
patents, in 1997.
The applications for agro-plant varieties accounted for ...