Plant Names, Global Challenges" is the title of the conference that the Royal Dutch Bulb Growers Association (KAVB) announced just days ago. The title highlights the issues that the organization hopes to address there: the floral industry's need for appropriate nomenclature and cultivar registration, as well as ways of developing and enforcing systematic rights registration and trademarks.
Speaking on those topics will be representatives from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality; the International Union for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV); the Community Plant Variety Office; the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property and the Dutch Board for Plant Varieties.
The conference will run from October 11th through 13th, with the schedule including one day for bulb company visits, one day with the presentations of the invited speakers and, lastly, a day for visiting the nearby Hortifair. The setting is the 'center of bulb and perennial research' at the PPO Lisse, located not far from Amsterdam.
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