Law of Patents Layout Designs of Integrated Circuits 1

A. A plant variety shall be deemed new if, at the date of filing the application or the date of the claimed priority, propagating or harvested material of the variety have not been sold or otherwise made available to others by the breeder or with his consent, for the purposes of exploiting the variety in accordance with the following: 1. In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for more than one year. 2. In other countries for more than four years or, in the case of trees or vines, for more than six years. B. A plant variety shall be deemed distinct if it is clearly distinguishable from any other variety whose existence is a matter of common knowledge at the time of filing the application or the time of the claimed priority. The Regulations shall specify the cases in which the existence of the plant variety is a matter of common knowledge. C. A plant variety shall be deemed uniform if, subject to the variation that may be expected from the particular features of its propagation, it is sufficiently uniform in its basic characteristics. D. A plant variety shall be deemed stable if its basic characteristics remain unchanged after repeated propagation or at the end of each given propagation cycle. E. A plant variety shall be named by specifying its genus and species, and the denomination must enable people to identify it.