Su-Hong-Ciao: Patents and Plant Breeders Rights are the only way to protect a plant from unauthorized propagation. Trademarks cannot be legally used as names of plants or any product. These trademarks are unenforceable and in violation of trademark law. You can read more at http://plantdelights.com/Trademarks-in-Horticultur… Tony Avent Plant Delights Nursery @ Juniper Level Botanic Garden 9241 Sauls Road Raleigh, North Carolina 27603 USA Minimum Winter Temps 0-5 F Maximum Summer Temps 95-105F USDA Hardiness Zone 7b email tony@plantdelights.com website http://www.plantdelights.com/ phone 919 772-4794 fax 919 772-4752 "I consider every plant hardy until I have killed it myself...at least three times" - Avent -----Original Message----- From: pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:pbs-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of fierycloud2002 Sent: Friday, May 20, 2011 11:40 PM To: pbs@lists.ibiblio.org Subject: [pbs] re?Plant Breeders Right Hello: The Eu country seems have 2 choice of registrations of Plant Breeders Right . Registered in local country or resisted in EU. http://www.cpvo.europa.eu/ should be the way for EU. (Protected in whole EU) By the way, beside the Plant Breeders Right and trademark which are could be register to get protect. The Patents also could be registered for such as a genome which are disease resistant in a variety for protect. (I wonder that If the Trademark and Patents were also have the difference in registration in Local and whole EU.) Su-Hong-Ciao Taiwan