Plant Varieties

ABG Intellectual Property has a breadth of experience in the protection of seeds, flowers, fruits or trees

Your innovation is valuable: protect your plant varieties IP rights

Due to the exponential growth, over the last years, of new plant varieties of high commercial value, it has become essential for plant breeders’ to protect actively their innovations.

ABG Intellectual Property provides assistance with the evaluation and prosecution of plant variety rights before the Spanish Plant Variety Office (OEVV) and the Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO), particularly in aspects related to passing the technical examination and examination of the denomination for the plant variety.

We also prosecute the inclusion of plant varieties in the Register of Commercial Varieties, which allows the commercialization of the variety in Spain. The varieties included in said register subsequently pass to the Common Catalogue of the European Union, allowing them to be marketed throughout the European Union.

360º Service

Additionally, we offer:

surveillance studies of plant protection titles
opposition procedures against the grant of plant variety rights of competitors
maintenance of the plant variety right during the full term of the title

Plants and trademarks

Due to our ample experience in other fields of intellectual property, ABG can also advise on the suitability of obtaining patents or trademarks to complement the protection of the plant variety right.

Legal Advice

Our legal team assists our clients in commercial transactions, in the enforcement of the exclusive rights over the product, by negotiating and drafting licensing agreements, and conducting enforcement and infringement litigation.

Other countries

ABG also provides advice and support for obtaining and enforcing protection in other countries of interest, through the collaboration with reliable and specialized partners in other jurisdictions.