Growing your IP: Plant breeding intellectual property

Growing your IP: Plant breeding intellectual property
Webinar via Zoom with Alanna Rennie is an Associate in Baker McKenzie and Wendy Cashmore is a founding Partner of Plant IP Partners Limited. Interested in learning about IP protections for plants?  Learn about PVR, patents, confidential information, trademarks, with a deep dive on algae and hemp.
Date:
 Tuesday 19th January 2021
Time:

1pm - 2.15pm - Eastern Australian Daylight Savings Time
3pm - 4.15pm - New Zealand Daylight Savings Time
Cost: $22.50 LESANZ members
$45 Non members
Register:

Online below - Zoom links are sent to registrants on the day with the event reminder

Speakers:

Alanna Rennie - Associate - Baker McKenzie - Sydney

Wendy Cashmore - founding Partner - Plant IP Partners Ltd - New Zealand
 

What you will learn:

  • Introduction to IP rights in plant breeding
  • The pros and cons of Plant Variety Rights, Plant Patents and Confidential Information
  • Commercialising plant IP case studies
  • What’s the hype? – plant IP in algae and medicinal cannabis
  • Plant breeders’ industry bodies and useful resources

Our Speakers

  

Alanna Rennie - Associate, Baker McKenzie, Sydney

Alanna has experience in mergers and acquisitions and plant intellectual property. Alanna has played a central role in initiating the firm's global Plant Variety Initiative and has guided companies on plant variety commercialisation and enforcement strategies in China and Australia. Alanna is admitted in Australia and holds a bachelor of laws (honours) from Bond University and Masters in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University.


Wendy Cashmore - founding Partner - Plant IP Partners Ltd, New Zealand

Wendy is a specialist business operating in the field of plant variety intellectual property (IP) and its commercialisation internationally.  A committed advocate for efficient and effective legislative and business systems for the benefit of those who breed, develop, and commercialise new variety products, Wendy is also a current VP of CIOPORA – the International Community of Breeders of Asexually Reproduced Horticultural Plants.

 
When
1/19/2021 3:00 PM - 4:15 PM
New Zealand Daylight Time
Where
New Zealand Daylight Savings Time or 1pm Eastern Australian Daylight Savings Time Zoom links are sent on 19th January to all
now closed as preparations to host have started, to pay for event video, please contact the Office