Where Work Meets Adventure
Summerland Varieties Corp. (SVC) is a Canadian full-service intellectual property management firm that is honoured to represent globally recognized varieties of apples, sweet cherries, and berries. SVC has decades of experience in new fruit variety development and commercialization. With an astounding 1,100 contracts under management, the staff team of 10, operating out of Summerland, BC, manage all aspects of fruit variety research, protection, commercialization and rights enforcement.
SVC is advised by leading scientists, horticulturalists, and legal experts; collaborates with research consortiums, plant breeder associations, marketing clubs and government agencies; and has enduring commercial relationships with many of the world's top nurseries, growers, packers and marketers. The organization is a for-profit corporation, the shares of which are owned by the not-for-profit BC Fruit Growers’ Ass...