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Preface of the Editor

A total of 154 applications for plant variety rights were received in

2014. Among them 18 applications are pending for document review

and 136 applications are undergoing substantial review. A total of 124
applications for plant variety right registration were approved and

announced during the current year, among which ornamental plants

accounted for 93%, fruit trees 2%, vegetable plants 2%, forest tree 1%,

and Other crops 2%. The average periods from application to approval

notice are flowers crops 30 months, fruit trees 6 months, vegetable plants
56 months, Forest Tree 8 months, and Other crops 8 months. when the

applications are undergoing substantive review.

In order to expand the applicable scope for plant variety rights, 2

applicable plants were announced during the current year, including

Catasetinae (include Cycnoches) (103/05/23)、Torenia (103/10/31).
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.

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