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T&G secures legal victory to protect apple-variety rights in China

By MLex Staff ( March 19, 2025, 09:00 GMT | Insight) -- New Zealand fresh-produce giant T&G Global has successfully safeguarded its intellectual property rights pertaining to an apple plant variety in China, as the country’s highest court recently upheld a landmark decision from a lower court, directing the infringer to compensate T&G’s subsidiary EnzaFruit with 3.3 million yuan ($456,000) for unauthorized plantings of the Scilate apple variety branded under the trademark “Envy.”New Zealand fresh-produce giant T&G Global has successfully safeguarded its intellectual property rights pertaining to an apple plant variety in China, as the country’s highest court recently upheld a landmark decision from a lower court, directing the infringer to compensate T&G’s subsidiary EnzaFruit with 3.3 million yuan ($456,000) for unauthorized plantings of the Scilate apple variety branded under the trademark “Envy.”...

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