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Yearbook on Plant Variety Rights 2018

Preface of the Editor

A total of 152 applications for plant variety rights were received in 2018. Among them 11

applications are pending for document review and 141 applications are undergoing substantial
review. A total of 62 applications for plant variety right registration were approved and announ-

ced during the current year, among which ornamental plants accounted for 59%, fruit trees 10%,
vegetable plants 21% and crop plant 10%. The average periods from application to approval

notice are flowers crops 55 months, fruit trees 2 months, vegetable plants 4 months
and crop plant 9 months when the applications are undergoing substantial review.

In order to expand the applicable scope for plant variety rights, 9 applicable plants were

announced during the current year, including golden mushroom, king oyster mushroom, coffee,
red sage, mesona, buck wheat, odourbark cinnamon, kiwifruit and blueberry. And 3 new DUS

test guidelines of golden mushroom, kiwifruit and blueberry were complished as well.

Promotion of intellectual property rights has been a major administrative policy in Taiwan,
the Yearbook on Plant Variety Rights not only provides complete data regarding variety right

registration of the current year, but also demonstrates our efforts to protect plant variety rights
and records the achievements during the process of research and development of new plant

varieties in Taiwan. From this year onward, the English translation of the yearbook will be
available below the Chinese text, in order to disseminate information regarding the plant variety

rights in Taiwan all over the world.

Many thanks to the applicants and plant breeders for providing materials and pictures of the
new plant varieties during the data collection process, by doing so that the compilation and

edition of the yearbook could be successfully completed. Despite our best efforts to maintain the
completeness and accuracy of information, mistakes may be made in haste. Hence, your kind

comments and suggestions would be appreciated.