This paper analyses official published data, all public cases of plant variety infringement occurring in China over the past ten years, and interviews with judges and leaders of seed production enterprises. The authors suggest that merely amending plant variety regulations will not substantially improve the level of protection of new plant varieties in China. The dilemma of plant variety protection in China lies in the imperfection of the procedural legal rules, which makes it impossible to enforce the substantive legal rules. In addition, the lack of experience of Chinese IP judges in hearing key issues of plant variety type cases has prevented them from consistently interpreting the statutory law. This article reveals the efforts of China’s Supreme People’s Court in recent years to address the aforementioned issues. This study is particularly relevant for countries that are still implementing UPOV1978.
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Corresponding author: xwzhang@szu.edu.cn. This project was funded by the National Social Science Foundation of China, as part of the programme titled ‘Research on Personal Information Protection Legislation from the Perspective of Socialist Core Values’ (Grant No. 20VHJ008).
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- 1 INTRODUCTION
- 2 CURRENT STATE OF VARIETY RIGHTS PROTECTION FOR PLANTS IN CHINA
- 3 LIMITATIONS IN CURRENT CHINESE LEGISLATIVE TEXTS
- 4 WAYS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM
- 5 CONCLUSION
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