Registering a new plant variety
Prepares the dossier and the variety denomination, and coordinates DUS testing to secure rights in a new plant variety.
This branch has its own procedure, built around testing for distinctness, uniformity and stability. Naming the variety follows its own rules and is where dossiers most often cycle.
- Who may perform this: Agricultural specialists working with an industrial property representative
- Timeline: Dossier in 2–4 weeks; testing runs to the species' growing cycle
- How pricing works: Quoted by species and the volume of trial data to be prepared.
Deliverables
- The application dossier with the variety's technical questionnaire
- A proposed denomination that complies with the rules
- Coordination of testing and docketing through to the protection title
What you provide
- The variety's origin, breeding history and any existing trial data
- Propagating material as required for testing