植物新品种权的保护及完善

Plant Variety Rights Protection and Its Improvement

与先进国家相比,我国的植物新品种权保护起步较晚,但随着相关法规的逐步颁布,保护制度趋于完善,申请植物新品种权也步入高峰期。然而在植物新品种权制度实施过程中,在同国际接轨的进程中,也暴露出一些问题:侵权现象严重;“品种权例外”造成的法律保护缺位;申请量不稳定、授权量少,地区差异大等。这些问题的解决不仅有待于公众及育种者法律意识的提高,还有待于制度创新:扩大植物新品种保护名录;“例外保护”中的限制保护措施;注册植物新品种商标等。

Compared with advanced countries, the plant variety rights protection in China started pretty late, but the protection system has been improved by the stipulations of relevant laws and regulations and thus the application for the plant variety rights protection keeps increasing. On the other hand, in the process of following international practice there arise some problems such as the serious infringement on rights, deficient legal protection due to ＂exception to plant variety rights＂, an unstable number of application and a small number of granting rights, and a big gap among regions. Therefore the legal awareness of the public and breeders should be improved and the following systems need to be created： expanding the list of plant variety protection, limited protection in ＂exception to plant variety rights＂, and registration of trade mark of plant variety.