2012 CIOPORA Chronicle

Quiz
Test your knowledge of
Intellectual Property
Proof your
knowledge in IP
matters and win a
free participation
in a CIOPORA IP
seminar.
Do you consider yourself an expert on IP?
In order to take part in the competition:
1. Remove the page with the questionnaire from
the magazine;
2. Fill in the answers and send it to CIOPORA
via email (info@ciopora.org),
fax (+49 (0)40-555-63-703)
or mail (P.O. Box 13 05 06, D-20105 Hamburg,
GERMANY) by May 31, 2012.
3. The winner of the prize – a free participation in a
CIOPORA IP Seminar – will be chosen in a raffle
from all the correctly answered questionnaires.
4. The winner will be informed directly and
announced on the CIOPORA website on 18 June.
www.ciopora.org
Name:
Company:
1. How many members does UPOV currently have?
2. The most recent member of UPOV is
3. The only country which still is member
to the UPOV 1961 Convention is
Please tick the correct answer!
4. I can protect my apple-variety in the U.S. by:
Plant Patent
Patent
Plant Breeders’ Right Trademark
5. The easiest way to protect my gerbera variety
in the European Union is:
to seek for PBR protection in all
27 member-states of the EU
to seek for CPVR
to seek for a European trademark
6. The application fee for a CPVR currently is:
1,200 EUR 500 US$
900 EUR 300 EUR
7. Which one of the following statements is true:
Nobody is allowed to breed with an EDV
An EDV must have separate PBR protection in
order to enjoy the protection of its initial variety
In any case an EDV is eligible for PBR protection
In Australia it’s upon the Secretary in the department
of the PBR office to decide whether a
variety is an EDV or not
8. If material of a variety has been sold or otherwise
marketed with the consent of the title-holder, the
PBR for said material is:
null- and void
terminated
exhausted
suspended
9. If a variety is not clearly distinguishable from
an existing protected variety,
it is an Essentially Derived Variety of this
initial variety
it is not eligible for PBR protection
I can freely commercialize it
10. Which of the following statements is false:
A holder of a U.S. Plant Patent can exclude others
from:
asexually reproducing the protected plant
selling the plant so reproduced
importing the plant so reproduced
exporting the plant so reproduced
Please send back the completed questionnaire to
the CIOPORA office until 31 May, 2012.
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