Plant variety rights & plant IP
Plant variety rights, protected properly.
Others handle plant IP as administration only. BLOOMZ files and defends Plant Variety Rights, Plant Breeders’ Rights and US plant patents as your New Zealand agent — and, where an offshore owner needs it, as the independent party looking after their interest.
Why clients move to us
The difference from a law firm.
Other firms handle plant IP. They are law firms — they do the paperwork, and nothing else. No permits, no import, no quarantine, no propagation.
Large global corporates often start with a law firm, then find they are paying one party for the administration and someone else for everything physical, with neither side joined up. Around half of them move to BLOOMZ within three to six months, once they see they are paying twice for a service that was never integrated.
- A law firm doesFiling. Maintenance. The paperwork.
- BLOOMZ doesAdvice, permits, import, post-entry quarantine, testing, propagation — and the filing and maintenance.
What we file and defend
Rights, patents and DUS testing.
Plant Variety Rights, Plant Breeders’ Rights and US plant patents: filing, execution, maintenance and DUS testing. BLOOMZ acts as the owner’s New Zealand agent and, where it’s needed, as the independent party protecting an offshore owner’s interest — which sometimes means policing our own clients.
Plant Variety Rights
Filed and maintained in New Zealand and a range of other countries.
Plant Breeders’ Rights
The equivalent right in jurisdictions that use that term.
US plant patents
Prepared, filed and prosecuted with US counsel.
DUS testing
Set up and managed with the NZ PVR Office — distinctness, uniformity and stability trials.
Most variety-rights work starts with material coming into the country — that is the other half of the service.
Plant import & post-entry quarantineCommon questions
Questions about variety rights.
If your question isn’t here, ask us — the enquiry form is at the foot of the page.
We look after Plant Variety Rights and Plant Breeders’ Rights in a range of countries and US plant patents, and we set up and manage DUS testing with the NZ PVR Office.
Every job is different and priced individually — there is no standard product to order. As a marker: bringing in a new apple variety runs about $150,000, plus $20,000–$30,000 to protect the IP. We’ll tell you straight whether yours is difficult or easy.
Make an enquiry
Tell us the plants, and where you’re based.
Every job is different and priced on its own. The more we know at the start, the faster we can help — and we’ll phone you back.