2011 CIOPORA Chronicle - the 50th Anniversary Edition

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Birthday greetings CIOPORA Germany & Union Fleurs offers warm congratulations The importance of national plant breeders’ rights diminishes in favor of European and world wide accepted titles and patents. To protect the intellectual property rights of plant breeders in this situation, a competent and strong organisation is a prerequisite. In the past 50 years CIOPORA worked hard to meet these expectations and achieved remarkable results and success. The 58 members of CIOPORA Germany, that celebrated its 25th anniversary only some weeks ago, congratulate her ‘Mother CIOPORA’ by expressing a warm-hearted "Thank you!!!" We as CIOPORA Germany received a lot of understanding and helpful promotion and hope that CIOPORA will continue to spend us these excellent benefits. As ‘children’ we promise to proceed being an open minded and confident clientele. We do hope that in the future the very open discussion of our particular national affairs and interest will meet the same understanding and support of the mother as in the past. With this in mind we wish an encouraging celebration of the 50th anniversary and all the best for the next 50 years to come. Friederike von Rundstedt Chairwoman of CIOPORA Germany CIOPORA Deutschland e.V. Gemeinschaft der Züchter vegetativ vermehrbarer Zier- und Obstpflanzen As we look back on the past fifty years of horticulture business we can see one clear and strong development, and that is the internationalization of our industry. Flowers are produced and consumed in ever more countries, and as a consequence, trade between those countries increases. Our purpose as Union Fleurs is to represent and promote the worldwide interests of the horticulture industry and foster free trade to increase the size of the pie. One of the cornerstones of free trade is a strong, well functioning intellectual property system to protect breeders, growers, traders and ultimately the consumer. As we include ever more countries in the global trade of flowers, it falls upon CIOPORA, among others to promote strong IP legislation and legal follow-through in new producer and consumer countries. We, as an industry, need to support this effort in several constructive ways, and inform about what intellectual property rights are and how they should be complied with. We should use all communication means necessary to inform about piracy, and to assist producers to comply with regulations. One idea would be to launch a “White Certificate” for producers and traders to show that they comply fully with breeders rights, royalty payments and so forth. This would indicate clearly to the whole chain of distribution who is supporting the development of our industry and who is not. The label could be displayed on websites, emails, boxes, and so on, to show that a company is in full compliance. This could be a step in the right direction in assisting CIOPORA in their worthy task of promoting IP rights in old and new markets. We, as Union Fleurs, congratulate CIOPORA on their fiftieth anniversary and wish for another fifty years with strengthened breeders rights John Nevado Board member Union Fleurs
Selecta Klemm This year CIOPORA celebrates 50 years of commitment protecting Intellectual Property Rights for breeders. For the Selecta Group - as a world leading breeder, producer and marketer of vegetatively propagated ornamental plants based in Stuttgart, Germany – CIOPORA’s work in defending the Intellectual Property of breeders is essential. Selecta applauds CIOPORA’s commitment Selecta considers professional breeding as an important investment into the future. These extensive breeding investments can only be justified if breeders are granted a comprehensive and long-lasting protection for their novelties. The history of Selecta shows many successful breeding achievements, protected by over 800 PBR titles worldwide. Double flowered Calibrachoa In 2006 the company’s research and development team succeeded in developing methods for breeding Calibrachoa plants with double flowers. Selecta could enter the market with MiniFamous® Double Pink – the world’s first double flowering Calibrachoa variety. The genus Calibrachoa is a very close relative of the genus Petunia. While the double flower trait had already been established in Petunia, no double flowering Calibrachoa types had been discovered by then. Selecta's breeding team of Dr. Andrea Dohm started from an interspecific cross which resulted in a hybrid plant showing some flowers with a tiny additional petal. By using biotechnical methods within a 10 year lasting breeding project these prototypes could be developed into commercial varieties exhibiting complete and attractive double flowers. This breeding success was honoured with the American “Award of Excellence” in 2006 and the approval for the US utility patent in 2010. Today Selecta offers a colourful assortment of double flowering varieties. The double flowering Calibrachoa varieties MiniFamous® Double Lemon, MiniFamous® Double Pink and MiniFamous® Double Amethyst are now also used for Per Klemm, chief operating officer at Selecta Klemm and vice president of CIOPORA. 44 www.CIOPORA.org | CIOPORA Chronicle April 2011
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