The PROTECTION OF PLANT VARIETIES AND FARMERS' RIGHTS ACT 2001 protects:
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B.
1. The PPV&FR Act 2001 implements India's TRIPS Article 27(3)(b) obligation through a SUI GENERIS system protecting plant varieties.
2. Section 14 enumerates categories: (a) new variety; (b) extant variety; (c) farmers' variety; (d) essentially derived variety.
3. Section 39 confers FARMERS' RIGHTS — including right to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety protected under the Act in the same manner as before passing of this Act (with the limitation that he shall not sell branded seed of a protected variety).
4. The PPV&FR Authority is the regulator.
5. Hence option B is correct.
_Source: Patents Act 1970 / Copyright Act 1957 / Trade Marks Act 1999 (Bare Acts, IPIndia portal + Copyright Office) — Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act 2001, Sections 14-39_
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