Bacteria can be applied as "new plant varieties", and the rights they enjoy after authorization are:
1. The unit or individual that has completed the breeding enjoys exclusive rights to the authorized varieties. right. No unit or individual may produce or sell the propagating material of the authorized variety for commercial purposes without the permission of the owner of the variety right (hereinafter referred to as the variety right holder), and may not reuse the propagating material of the authorized variety for commercial purposes in the production of another variety. Propagating materials of varieties
2 The protection period of variety rights is 20 years from the date of authorization for vines, forest trees, fruit trees and ornamental trees, and 15 years for other plants.
It should also be noted that applying for a new plant variety may require biological preservation in relevant institutions.
The method of cultivating bacterial strains can also be applied for patent as an invention. This is no different from the application for inventions by other methods, so I won’t go into details.