Plant Varieties & Animal Breeds
The Bulgarian Law for Protection of New Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds has been enforced since 1996. It refers to creation or discovery of new varieties of plants of every botanical family or sort, including branch, line, hybrid and padding, regardless of the method (artificial or natural) of their obtaining.
Plant Varieties
Right protection may be received for those varieties of plants, which meet the requirements of the Law: novelty, differentiation, homogeneity and stability. The variety is deemed to be new if at the date of filing the application for a certificate, the same or propagating material of the variety or harvest thereof has not been offered for sale, sold, or otherwise used commercially or has been offered with the consent of the breeder. The variety is deemed to be distinct when it clearly differs from any other variety which is a variety of common knowledge, i.e. made an object of marketing, trade or any other kind of realization. The variety is homogeneous when, regardless of the presence of minor deviations, the plants are identical in their basic features. It is deemed that a variety is stable when it remains unchanged in terms of its basic features after multiple reproduction or if the breeder has defined a peculiar propagation or, and at the end of each cycle the variety has kept a conformity to the description specified for it.
The variety should have variety name which refers to its family or sort and is necessary for its identification. Right protection of the new varieties of plants is given with a certificate, issued by the Patent Office after expert research.
IP Consulting Ltd. is your advisor in the area of the new varieties of plants.
IP Consulting Ltd. offers you representation in registration of new varieties of plants before the State Variety Commission and the Patent Office.
The first licensed representative in the sphere of new plant varieties and animal breeds in Bulgaria now is the IP Consulting Ltd. patent lawyer – Mrs. Rumiana Dobreva. Mrs Dobreva can represent you for achieving a certificate for the created by you new varieties that meet the requirements by the law: world novelty, distinctness, homogeneity, and stability. The certificate gives exceptional rights to its proprietor over the protected variety. In regard with the Bulgarian Law on Protection of the New Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds the foreign applicants for a certificate are obliged to perform acts before the reference authorities only through intellectual property representatives.
IP Consulting Ltd. offers contemporary protection of the varieties. The Agency offers mediation and representation to Bulgarian and foreign proprietors of varieties before the State Variety Commission for their entry into Official Register of Varieties of Republic of Bulgaria.
IP Consulting Ltd. protects your rights as a proprietor of a certificate for a new variety against all forms of infringement by applying all legal means – in administrative or judicial order.
IP Consulting Ltd. cooperates with attorneys specialized in the area of law referring to protection of new plant varieties and can provide professional protection of your interests before The Court, The Commission for Protection of Competition, The Customs and The Patent Office.
Animal Breeds
IP Consulting Ltd. is your advisor in the area of the new animal breeds.
IP Consulting Ltd. offers you representation in registration of new animal breeds before the State Breed Commission of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests and the Patent Office.
The first licensed representative in the sphere of new plant varieties and animal breeds in Bulgaria now is the IP Consulting Ltd. patent lawyer – Mrs. Roumiana Dobreva. Mrs Dobreva can represent you for achieving a certificate for the created by you new animal breeds that meet the requirements by the law: world novelty, distinctness, homogeneity, and stability. The certificate gives exceptional rights to its proprietor over the protected variety. In regard with the Bulgarian Law on Protection of the New Plant Varieties and Animal Breeds the foreign applicants for a certificate are obliged to perform acts before the reference authorities only through intellectual property representatives
IP Consulting Ltd. offers contemporary protection of the new animal breeds. The Agency offers mediation and representation to Bulgarian and foreign proprietors of breeds before the State Breed Commission.
IP Consulting Ltd. protects your rights as a proprietor of a certificate for a new breed against all forms of infringement by applying all legal means – in administrative or judicial order.
IP Consulting Ltd. cooperates with attorneys specialized in the area of law referring to protection of new animal breeds and can provide professional protection of your interests before The Court, The Commission for Protection of Competition, The Customs and The Patent Office.
In case that you are a company or a big agricultural producer who needs an access to high productive breeds, we can provide for you the necessary information, current in world and national scale, referring to the breeds you are interested in, protected or not by a certificate in Bulgaria, or other countries which interest you.
