Plant varieties are not patentable under patent legislation. They are protected under the above legislation. The courts seek to keep the two schemes of protection distinct. Patents and plant variety rights may operate in tandem.<\/p>\n
Plants and animals themselves are not considered inventions. The above-mentioned prohibitions apply. It excludes microbiological processes even though microorganisms are alive.<\/p>\n\n
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Plant Variety Rights There is separate plant variety legislation, which grants patent-like protection. It is based on international Conventions which have recognised plant breeding rights. Plant variety rights cover the genetic engineering of plant material. The legislation protects strains of plants. Significant time and investment may be involved in the production of plant varieties. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12955"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20487,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12955\/revisions\/20487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}