On October 27, 2023, the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV) released its third set of explanatory notes on essentially derived variety (EDV) protection. In this alert, we provide a brief...more
A recent opinion issued by the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBoA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) has established that plants and plant materials are not patentable if they are exclusively obtained by means of an essentially...more
Opinion also contains important holdings for labeling and copyright infringement in the context of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act
In Syngenta Crop Protection LLC v. Willowood LLC, et al., the US...more