Syngenta launches new e-licensing platform for vegetable varieties
Syngenta’s new e-licensing system aims to transform the way the plant science industry shares beneficial innovations in order to improve plant breeding and meet global challenges such as increasing demand and scarce resources. Syngenta recently launched its TraitAbility e-licensing platform which provides breeders and research institutes around the world with quick, easy and cost-effective access to our patented native traits in commercial vegetable varieties as well as patented enabling technologies.
Syngenta makes substantial investments in advanced research, development, and modern breeding techniques to bring forward innovations that drive long-term agricultural productivity, environmental sustainability and rural development. Patents play an important role in incentivizing this research. However, plant breeders have traditionally been challenged by the complex, costly and time-consuming process of obtaining licenses to use the innovations developed by patent owners.
The TraitAbility platform addresses this obstacle by providing straightforward access via the Internet to important patents of its vegetable native traits and enabling technologies under fair, transparent, and standard terms. No negotiation is necessary, which reduces transactional costs and ensures fair sharing of benefits between patent owner, licensee and grower.
“The out-licensing of our patented vegetable native traits and enabling technologies will give growers far more choice by helping breeders develop new, high-yielding varieties more quickly and efficiently than ever before,” said Michael Kock, Syngenta’s Global Head of Intellectual Property.
Moreover, all academic and non-profit organizations can make free use of the available vegetable native traits and enabling technologies for R&D purposes and can distribute the resulting products in developing countries free-of-charge.
“To address the challenges farmers’ face, we need to find creative ways of sharing our inventions and making them broadly accessible,” adds Kock. “TraitAbility demonstrates our belief that intellectual property rights can be used in progressive ways to share our technology more widely and to enhance collaboration.”
To access the website, please visit: www.traitability.com
