{"id":153867,"date":"2021-12-16T19:39:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=153867"},"modified":"2021-12-16T19:39:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T14:09:27","slug":"plant-protection-authority-sets-right-its-potato-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/plant-protection-authority-sets-right-its-potato-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant protection authority sets right its potato blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

News: <\/span><\/b>Recently, the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers\u2019 Rights (PPV&FR) Authority revoked the registration of PepsiCo\u2019s potato variety<\/span> FL 2027. It was used in the manufacture of its Lay\u2019s chips.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that farmers can cultivate this variety freely without the threat of penal action for violating intellectual property rights (IPR).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers\u2019 Rights (PPV&FR) Act?<\/span><\/b><\/h5>\n

It was enacted in 2001 to comply with the World Trade Organization\u2019s requirements on laws to protect IPRs (Intellectual property rights) in agriculture.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers\u2019 Rights (PPV&FR) Authority has been established under the act to grant Intellectual Property Rights to plant breeders, researchers and farmers who have developed plant varieties (new and existing).<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To remove the apprehensions of the farming community in India regarding the Act, <\/span> the authority included a chapter that made the rights of farmers\u2019 paramount over those of breeders. This chapter also promised to protect the traditional practice of reusing and sharing seeds.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

How is Indian law different from global practice<\/span><\/b>?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Developed countries follow the framework laid out by the International Union for Protection of New Plant Varieties (UPOV), called the UPOV convention.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This convention protects breeders\u2019 rights and bars farmers from reusing saved seeds or exchanging them with other cultivators. India has not joined UPOV<\/strong> till date.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Must Read<\/strong>: What is the PepsiCo-potato case?<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Why PepsiCo registered FL-2027 as an extant variety instead of a new one?<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Extant variety = variety of common knowledge<\/p>\n

This was done to exploit a loophole<\/strong> in the Indian law.<\/p>\n

Whereas the UPOV focuses only on registration of the newly bred varieties that meet specified standards, the Indian law even allows registration of the varieties that were once publicly available and were used freely by the farming community.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Recently, Corporate entities and public institutions are registering more and more existing varieties to take leverage of this loophole.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/span><\/b>– This post is based on the article <\/span>\u201cPlant protection authority sets right its potato blunder\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/b>published in\u00a0Down to earth<\/strong>\u00a0on<\/span>\u00a015th<\/sup>\u00a0Dec 2021<\/span><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

News: Recently, the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers\u2019 Rights (PPV&FR) Authority revoked the registration of PepsiCo\u2019s potato variety FL 2027. It was used in the manufacture of its Lay\u2019s chips.\u00a0 This means that farmers can cultivate this variety freely without the threat of penal action for violating intellectual property rights (IPR).\u00a0 What is the… Continue reading Plant protection authority sets right its potato blunder<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10504,10514,216],"class_list":["post-153867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704951041},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}