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courts flex new muscle to protect plant breeders' intellectual property

  • Written by David Jefferson, Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
courts flex new muscle to protect plant breeders' intellectual propertyNot all blueberries are the same. A variety called Ridley 1111 is at the centre of an important lawsuit for intellectual property and plants.Shutterstock

A few weeks ago, the Federal Court of Australia ordered a farmer in New South Wales to pay A$290,000 to a blueberry-producing company because he had grown and sold a proprietary variety of the...

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