Criteria for Registration & Variety Types

Please study the following information before applying for the plant varieties registration

Criteria for Registration & Variety Types

Criteria For Registration Of A Variety

Novel: if at the date of filing an application for registration for protection, the propagating or harvested material of such variety has not been sold or otherwise disposed of in India earlier than one year or outside India, in the case of trees or vines earlier than six years, or in any other case earlier than four years, before the date of filing such application.

Distinct: A variety is said to be distinct if it is clearly distinguishable by at least one essential characteristic from any other variety whose existence is a matter of common knowledge in any country at the time of filing an application.

Uniform: A variety is said to be uniform, if subject to the variation that may be expected from the particular features of its propagation it is sufficiently uniform in its essential characteristics.

Stable: A variety is said to be stable if its essential characteristics remain unchanged after repeated propagation or, in the case of a particular cycle of propagation, at the end of each such cycle.

Types Of Varieties

New Variety

A new variety can be registered under the Act if it conforms to the criteria for novelty, distinctiveness, uniformity, and stability.

Extant variety

An extant variety can be registered under the Act if it conforms to the criteria for distinctiveness, uniformity, and stability. Thus novelty is not considered while going for the protection of plant varieties.

The PPV&FRAu/s 2 (j) (iii) and (iv) defines extant variety as any variety "which is in the public domain or about which there is common knowledge.

Farmers' Variety

Under section 2 (l) farmers variety means a variety "which has been traditionally cultivated and evolved by the farmers in their fields".

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