The FC5 Lay's potato for which PepsiCo sues Indian farmers - Quartz
2019年4月30日 · It has sought Rs1.05 crore ($150,000) each from four farmers for cultivating the FL 2027 potato variety, commonly known as FC5, grown exclusively for PepsiCo’s Lay’s chips. In an Ahmedabad...
PepsiCo wins appeal against Indian attempt to remove potato …
2024年1月10日 · India's Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights (PPVFR) Authority in 2021 revoked the intellectual protection for the U.S. snacks and drinks maker's FC5 potato variety, saying Indian ...
Lay's Uses A Specially Modified Potato Variety For Their Chips
2023年7月17日 · So much so, the company even uses a specially modified and patented potato variety called “FC5.” According to Reuters, PepsiCo Inc, the parent company of Lay’s, recently …
PepsiCo Lay’s FC5 Potato Variety Patent Revoked by India
2021年12月7日 · The FC5 potato variety was grown exclusively for PepsiCo Inc’s popular Lay’s potato chips. PepsiCo has maintained that it developed the FC5 variety of potato, and registered the trait in 2016. The company, which set up its first potato chips plant in India in 1989, supplies the FC5 seed variety to a group of farmers who in turn sell their ...
PepsiCo sues four Indian farmers for using its patented Lay's potatoes
2019年4月26日 · Pepsi has sued the farmers for cultivating the FC5 potato variety, grown exclusively for its popular Lay's potato chips. The FC5 variety has a lower moisture content required to make snacks...
Special Lays variety potato was caught in a legal soup. But
2024年1月12日 · The FC5 variety, registered in the US as FL2027, has 5 percent lower moisture content — 80 percent compared to the usual 85 — than other varieties. This variety is, therefore, considered more suitable for processing and for making snacks such as potato chips.
PepsiCo’s Legal Battle: FC-5 Potato Variety Patent Dispute - Law
FL2027, commercially known as “FC5” is a potato variety that was developed and introduced in India by Pepsi Co., owing to crop failure in India that led to a mass shortage of Lays Chips. Since this variety has a rather lesser requirement for moisture, …
Delhi High Court turns down PepsiCo's appeal against revocation …
2023年7月8日 · The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights (PPVFR) Authority in 2021 revoked intellectual protection granted to PepsiCo's FC5 potato variety, saying that India's rules do not allow a...
PEPSICO’S PLANT VARIETY PROTECTION OVER FC5 POTATOES …
2022年1月13日 · Farmers across India rejoiced the revocation of the protection granted to the multinational giant PepsiCo, over a potato variety grown exclusively for its Lay’s Potato Chips. This decision is a welcome move for an essentially agrarian Indian economy since it asserts the supremacy of the farmers’ rights in society over private rights.
Delhi High Court restores PepsiCo’s patent for potato ... - ThePrint
2024年1月10日 · India’s Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers’ Rights (PPVFR) Authority in 2021 revoked the intellectual protection for the U.S. snacks and drinks maker’s FC5 potato variety, saying Indian rules did not allow seed varieties to be patented.