The Impact of Joining Jordan to the International Agreement for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV)
Dr. Bassam Al-Trawneh, Dr. Ali Al-Zubi

Abstract
The subject of legal protection of the new varieties has got lots of attention especially at the international and national level because of the great impact in developing and increasing the agricultural crops. This research sheds the lights on the aspects of the legal protection of the new varieties of plants in the different legal systems, whether by joining the UPOV agreement ( the convention to the protection of the new varieties of plant – UPOV) or through the patent protection by mentioning the new varieties of plant as a patent protection , or by dual protection, by integration between the legal protection for the patent and the law of protection the new varieties of plant. And it concentrating on the legal protection for the new varieties of plant in Jordanian law in a particular, and the development of this protection and showing the impact of joining Jordan to the UPOV convention in the two sides ( positive and negative). Finally the research enhances some results which mentioned in the conclusion of the research.

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