In December 1988 Taiwan's agricultural authority, the cabinet-level Council of Agriculture, placed new plant variety patents on a legal basis with its "Law on the Management of Plant Seeds and Seedlings," Article 2 of which deals with registration of names and patents for new varieties.
七十七年十二月，我國農業主管機關行政院農業委員會也公告了「植物種苗管理法」，其中第二章即針對新品種命名及專利登記做了規範，植物新品種專利的保護自此依法有據。