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Yearbook on Plant Variety Rights 2013

Preface of the Editor

A total of 198applications for plant variety rights were received in
2013. Among them 33 applications are pending for document review
and 165 applications are undergoing substantial review. A total of 109

applications for plant variety right registration were approved and
announced during the current year, among which ornamental plants

accounted for 76%, fruit trees 6%, vegetable plants 6%, and Agronomy
crop 7%. The average periods from application to approval notice are
flowers crops 30 months, fruit trees 5 months, vegetable plants 21 months

and Agronomy crop 33 months, Forest Tree 2 months, Other crops 9
months. when the applications are undergoing substantive review.

In order to expand the applicable scope for plant variety rights, 6
applicable plants were announced during the current year, including

Aster (2013/01/23)e Artocarpus (2013/01/28)e Calanthe (2013/03/22)e
Malabar chestnut (2013/08/20)eRicin (2013/08/22)eBougainvillea
(2013/11/14).

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.

ʫࠫ ɧࣧ JOEE ɨʹ