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- 1. Recent Changes
- 2. About this Manual, Quality, and Customer Engagement
- 2.1 Using This Manual
- 2.2 Customer Engagement, Quality Management and Timeliness
- 2.3 Procedures for Updating This Manual
- 3. PBR Process Maps
- 4. Part 1 - Application for PBR and Acceptance
- 4.1 Scope and Nature of Plant Breeder's Rights
- 4.2 Roles in a PBR Application
- 4.3 Form an application must take
- 4.4 Variety Denomination
- 4.5 Prior Sales
- 4.6 Priority
- 4.7 Acceptance or Rejection of PBR Application
- 4.7.1 Prima Facie Case for Breeding of the New Variety
- 4.7.2 Prima Facie Case for Distinctness of the New Variety
- 4.7.3 Breeding Process of the New Variety
- 4.8 Provisional Protection
- 5. Part 2 - Dealing With the Application After its Acceptance
- 5.1 DUS Test Growing in Australia
- 5.1.1 Centralised Testing Centres (CTC)
- 5.1.2 Pre-Examination Trial Agreement (PETA)
- 5.1.3 What to Expect During Field Examination
- 5.2 Overseas DUS Test Reports
- 5.3 Detailed Variety Description
- 5.3.1 IVDS Submissions
- 5.3.2 Further Period to Submit Detailed Description
- 5.3.3 Part 2 Forms and ACRA, GRC Submission
- 5.3.4 Ceasing of Provisional Protection
- 5.4 Public Comments
- 5.5 Withdrawals
- 5.6 Grant or Refusal
- 5.7 Revocation of PBR
- 5.8 Offer to Surrender
- 5.9 Expiry of Plant Breeder's Rights
- 6. Register of Plant Varieties
- 8. Qualified Persons (QPs)
- 9. Variations and Prescribed Fees
- 10. PBR System User Guides
Recent updates
| Item amended | Date Amended | Amended Reason |
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| Part 7. Grant of Plant Breeder's Rights | MM approving and testing the flow |
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| Part 5. Plant Varieties Journal | MM Approving and checking flows |
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| Part 4. Test Growing | MM Approving and checking flows |
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| Qualified Persons (QPs) | Corrected legislation and form links and made minor grammatical changes for clarity throughout. |
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| Part 8. Refusing an Application of PBR | Corrected s44 link to AustLII |
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| Quality Management at IP Australia | Testing purposes |
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| Timeliness Commitments | on behalf of Maddie Manning |
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| Part 3. Acceptance | - Add more details in Point 18, Examiner assessment of application in Part 3. Acceptance. |
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| Product Quality Standards | Deleting old quality standards |
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| Monitoring and Measuring Quality at IP Australia | Remove the page about error tier levels as this relates to the old quality system |
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| Part 4.1 Overseas Test Report | Content migration | |
| Part 6.1 Objections to Applications | Content migration |
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| Part 4.2 Australian Native Species | Content migration |
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| Part 3.1 Variety Denomination Assessment | Content migration |
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| Part 6. Public Comments | Content migration |