- CHAPTER ONE CONDITIONS AND CONTENT OF PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
- Article 1 Conditions for Plant Variety Protection
- Article 2 Definitions
- Article 3 Distinctness
- Article 4 Uniformity
- Article 5 Stability
- Article 6 Novelty
- Article 7 Variety Denomination
- Article 8 Entitlement to Variety Protection
- Article 9 Persons not Entitled to Apply
- Article 10 Effect of Variety Protection
- Article 10a Limitation of the Effect of Variety Protection
- Article 10b Exhaustion of Variety Protection
- Article 10c Suspension of Variety Protection
- Article 11 Legal Succession, Exploitation Rights
- Article 12 Compulsory Exploitation Rights
- Article 13 Duration of Variety Protection
- Article 14 Use of the Variety Denomination
- Article 15 Scope of Application in Respect of Persons
- CHAPTER TWO THE FEDERAL OFFICE OF PLANT VARIETIES
- CHAPTER THREE PROCEEDINGS BEFORE THE FEDERAL OFFICE OF PLANTVARIETIES
- Article 21 Formal Administrative Procedure
- Article 22 The Application for Variety Protection
- Article 23 Chronological Order of the Application for Variety Protection
- Article 24 Publication of the Application for Variety Protection
- Article 25 Objections
- Article 26 Examination
- Article 27 Failure to Comply
- Article 28 The Plant Variety Protection Register
- Article 29 Access
- Article 30 Amendment of the Variety Denomination
- Article 31 Ending of Variety Protection
- Article 32 Powers to Issue Procedural Regulations
- Article 33 Costs
- CHAPTER FOUR COURT PROCEEDINGS
- CHAPTER FIVE INFRINGEMENTS
- Article 37 Right to Seek Injunctions, Damages and Compensation
- Article 37a Right to Seek Destruction
- Article 37b Right to Seek Information with Regard to Third Parties
- Article 37c Prescription
- Article 38 Litigation with Respect to Plant Variety Protection
- Article 39 Penal Provisions
- Article 40 Fines
- Article 40a Measures by the Customs Authorities
- CHAPTER SIX FINAL PROVISIONS
- Article 41 Transitional Provisions
- Article 42 Entry into Force
- ANNEX
GERMANY
Consolidated Text of the Plant Variety Protection Law CHAPTER ONE
CONDITIONS AND CONTENT OF PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION
Article 1
(1) Protection shall be granted for a plant variety (hereinafter referred to as a “variety”), provided such variety is * German title: Sortenschutzgesetz; Source: Bundesgesetzblatt I, page 2170 ** German title: Gesetz zur Stärkung des Schutzes des geistigen Eigentums und zur Bekämpfung der Produktpiraterie vom 7. März 1990; Source: BGBl. I, page 422 *** Entry into force (of latest amendments): April 8, 1992 **** Source: Bundesgesetzblat Jahrgang 1997 Part I No. 51 (2) Protection under this Law shall not be granted for a variety that is the subject matter of a Community plant variety right.
For the purposes of this Law:
1. “Species” shall mean species of plants, and also groupings and 1a. “Variety” shall mean a grouping of plants or parts of plants, as far as such parts are capable of producing entire plants, within a single botanical taxon of the lowest known rank, which grouping, irrespective of whether the conditions for the grant of a plant variety right are met, can be: The Plant Variety Protection Law*
of December 11, 1985,
as Amended by the Law to Reinforce the Protection of Intellectual Property
and to Combat the Piracy of Products of March 7, 1990, **
by the First Amendment Law of March 27, 1992 ***
and by the Second Amendment Law of July 17, 1997 ****
Conditions for Plant Variety Protection
Article 2
Definitions
subdivisions of species of plants,