Presentations

Eurpoean View of Intellectual Property Rights for the
Protection of Products and Processes of Plant Breeding
Dr. O.M.B. de Ponti
Managing Director R&D Nunza B.V.,
The Netherlands

Orlando de Ponti graduated at the Wageningen University in 1971, discipline plant breeding. In 1980 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on resistance breeding to insects at the same university.

From 1971 to 1986 he was employed at the Institute for breeding of horticultural crops (IVT) in Wageningen in respectively functions of Researcher and Head of the department Vegetable and Fruit.

From 1986 - 1991 he was Director of the Institute for plant diseases (IPO-DLO) in Wageningen.

In 1991 he switched to the business world in his function of Director Research of Nunhems Zaden BV, a company which at that time was part of Hoechst AG. Since 1997 he holds the same function at the Holding Nunza B.V., which international vegetable seed breeding company is part of Bayer CropScience AG since 2002.