Know the specific protections available in certain fields
How do you protect an innovation that won't be patented?

Plant breeding is specifically protected by the issue of a plant variety certificate.

A plant variety is defined as a new variety created or discovered:

• which differs from similar known varieties in one important, specific or only slightly fluctuating characteristic, or in several characteristics, the combination of which is such as to give it the quality of a new variety;

• which is homogeneous for all these characteristics;

• which remains stable, i.e. identical to its initial definition at the end of each multiplication cycle.

There is a specific procedure for filing with the Comité...