Sun World International Enforces its Intellectual Property Rights in Egypt

August 13, 2024 Sun World International

Despite Sun World’s PVR registrations in Egypt, some unauthorized farmers have been found growing Sun World’s varieties, violating both Egyptian PVR and criminal laws and damaging the Egyptian table grape export market for authorized growers.    

Egyptian Economic Courts Issue Injunctions Against Infringing Farms Producing Sun World’s MIDNIGHT BEAUTY Brand Table Grapes

September 21, 2022 Sun World

Three separate Egyptian courts have issued injunctions against four Egyptian growers and ordered court-appointed experts to collect samples and other evidence from the infringing farms where the experts found unauthorized Sugrathirteen variety grapevines. The three economic courts, located in Cairo, Alexandria and Tanta, affirmed the Egyptian plant variety rights (PVR) of the important American-bred black seedless grape variety, which is produced by several Egyptian growers without a license to do so.