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PART IIICOMPULSORY PLANT VARIETY LICENCES

Conditions

14.—(1) A compulsory plant variety licence shall—

(a)not be exclusive,

(b)entitle the holder of the plant breeders' rights concerned to an appropriate royalty, and

(c)entitle the holder of the plant breeders' rights concerned to a cross licence on reasonable terms to use the biotechnological invention protected by the patent.

(2) Where the controllers grant a compulsory plant variety licence to a proprietor of a patent for a biotechnological invention, the holder of the plant breeders' rights concerned may request the grant of a cross licence on reasonable terms to use the biotechnological invention protected by the patent and, on such request, the controllers shall grant such cross licence to the holder of plant breeders' rights (or, where the holder is a government department, to any person specified in the request).