Starting this year, any company that prevents inspectors from accessing fruit to perform tests will automatically lose its export code.
The firm praised the decision, saying it provides great confidence to bring the company’s latest varieties and technologies to the African country.
The reason behind the department's decision remains unclear, but it leaves Chilean exporters with little to no recourse to reverse the ruling in this case.
Bloom Fresh has stepped up enforcement actions against unauthorized plantings of its proprietary table grape varieties in Peru, including legal cases, supply chain monitoring, and investigations into nurseries suspected of illegal propagation. The fruit breeding company said it has filed three new legal actions with Instituto Nacional de Defensa de la Competencia y de la […]
More than $160 billion in unlawfully collected tariffs is at stake, and there is no direct precedent for handling such a large-scale reimbursement.
The ruling confirmed third-party infringement of its Plant Variety Rights over the IFG Six cultivar, marketed globally as Sweet Sapphire™.
The firm secured immediate enforcement for the removal of unauthorized Sugrathirtyfive vines, commercialized under the AUTUMNCRISP brand.
China’s highest court upheld penalties in a long-running grape infringement case, reinforcing plant variety protection and signaling stronger IP enforcement for foreign breeders.
The filing opens a 90-day period during which the agency will defend its 2024 decision to unlock the protocol for exporters in the Latin American country.
In a notice, the agency stated "APHIS will only issue import permits for grapes treated with fumigation either in Chile or upon arrival at a US port of entry,"
