EU appeal court upholds Nadorcott registration
The Board of Appeal of the European Union’s Community Plant Variety Office (CPVO) has confirmed the Community Plant Variety Right No. 14.111 for the Nadorcott mandarin variety.
The decision allows the Protected Plant Varieties Club (CVVP), which manages the variety in Spain and Portugal, to continue its fight against its illegal propagation.
This is the latest episode in a long-running dispute arising from the production rights of Nadorcott, developed in Morocco, and the Tango mandarin variety, developed by the University of California Riverside.
It centres on whether Tango, registered in the EU as Tang Gold, is ’essentially derived’ from Nadorcott or sufficiently different to make it eligible for registration and protection.
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