Plant Variety Rights
James & Wells' Plant Variety Rights Team advises clients involved in developing new plant cultivars on methods for protecting their work, including registering plant variety rights and plant patents.
Protection for a new plant variety may be obtained from The Plant Variety Rights Office of New Zealand. A plant variety must be new, distinct, uniform and stable to be protected. Protecting a new plant variety prevents others from reproducing the same variety of plant, or reproductive material of that plant for sale.
Growing smart - protecting your new plant varieties and cultivars.