Plant variety rights or PVRs are seldom in the news. However, the recent discussion about the so-called “legal clash” between Zespri and the Te Puke-based company that has bred a new variety of gold kiwifruit is getting a fair bit of attention in the media. Check out the details here. 

For some reason, there hasn’t been much discussion about the aim of the legislation to encourage plant breeding innovation and breeders’ rights i.e. the rights of breeders to breed any other plant variety they develop, as long as it is new, distinct, uniform and stable.

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Clive Elliott

I live and work in Auckland, New zealand. I am a serial dabbler in the arts, with an interest in writing, poetry, public speaking and painting. I’m a frequent writer and commentator on intellectual property and information technology issues. I regularly write on and lecture on the art of advocacy, both oral and written. An example is a webinar I gave in 2018 “Mastering Advocacy: Effective Written and Oral Advocacy and How to Maximise Both”. My goal as an artist is to try and capture a little piece of that magnificent natural beauty that exists around us and preserve it in a time capsule so others can ponder and experience the wonder, before it evaporates away into the endless sands of time. 

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