Episode 4: Innovation Meets Intellectual Property Law

In this new episode, Dr. Jocelyn Bosse, Intellectual Property expert at Queen’s University Belfast, sits down with Montserrat García-Moncó Fuente, Head of the Legal Unit at the CPVO, to unpack the legal dynamics shaping plant variety protection today.The discussion touches on current legal challenges in enforcing and interpreting plant variety rights; how IP frameworks encourage innovation and support breeders across Europe; and emerging trends in IP law — from new breeding technologies to digitalisation — and what they may mean for plant breeders and the CPVO. An insightful exchange between two experts on how law, innovation, and plant breeding continue to evolve together.