if you own the patent you can go after the resellers as well ! I am sure there are companies that trawl for orchid patents with the view to legal action against growers and resellers.
Its noticeable to me because all the orchids I purchased at the big box stores in the past few years have tags. Hausermann's, which has its own breeding programme and has registered quite a few grexes, had a take-it-or-leave-it attitude when I queried the parentage of the miltoniopsis I was going to buy. EZ Orchids - who told me they get a container of 20,000 orchid hybrids from Taiwan every month, said that it was too much work to individually tag each pot.
I realise most people don't care about parentage but it is really frustrating to come across this in a breeding programme. There are consequences in that the harder it becomes to register a grex, the fewer named grexes are going to be available.
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