Blueberry New Variety Rights Dispute Escalates: Noposion and Meiming Agriculture Sue Each Other for Hundreds of Millions Combined

Nongxun.net reported on July 28 - Amid a dispute over blueberry new variety rights and seedling quality, the legal battle between Shenzhen Noposion Crop Science Co., Ltd. and Yunnan Meiming Agriculture Co., Ltd. continues to escalate. According to Noposion's latest announcement, the cumulative amount claimed in the mutual lawsuits between the two parties has reached the scale of several hundred million yuan.

Meiming Agriculture Files Another Lawsuit, Amount Involved Exceeds 36 Million Yuan

Noposion announced on July 17 that its controlled companies Yunnan Mengyumei Agriculture Co., Ltd., Guangzhu (Yunnan) Agriculture Co., Ltd., Aimeizhuang Agriculture Group Co., Ltd., Yuanjiang Lanbaiwang Agriculture Co., Ltd. and Yunnan Lanbaiwang Agriculture Co., Ltd. recently received the "Notice of Response to Lawsuit" and "Summons" and other materials served by the Intermediate People's Court of Kunming City, Yunnan Province. As of the disclosure date of the announcement, the first-instance cases have been filed and a hearing date has been scheduled, with the total amount involved in the litigation reaching 36.2494 million yuan.

Noposion stated that its subordinate controlled companies do not accept the plaintiff's litigation claims, will actively respond to the lawsuit and clarify the facts through legal channels. The company expects that the litigation will not have a material impact on daily production and operations, but the impact on the profit and loss for the current period and subsequent periods remains uncertain.

Two Cases Involve Infringement of Blueberry New Variety Rights

According to the announcement, in Case One, Meiming Company alleges that Yunnan Mengyumei, Guangzhu Yunnan and Aimeizhuang Group, without permission, unauthorizedly produced, propagated and planted its new blueberry varieties, and requests the court to order the three defendants to stop the infringing acts, destroy the new variety plants and propagation materials in their possession, and jointly compensate for economic losses of 25.08 million yuan and reasonable expenses of 100,000 yuan.

In Case Two, Meiming Company alleges that Yuanjiang Lanbaiwang, Yunnan Lanbaiwang, Guangzhu Yunnan and Aimeizhuang Group infringed its plant new variety rights, and requests the court to order the four defendants to stop the infringement, destroy all new variety blueberry plants and propagation materials, jointly compensate for economic losses and expected losses totaling 3.6498 million yuan, and bear punitive damages of 2 times that amount (totaling 10.9494 million yuan), and additionally claims 120,000 yuan in reasonable expenses.

First-Instance Judgment Results and Appeal Progress

Previously, on May 23, Noposion issued an announcement disclosing the first-instance judgment results of two cases in which Meiming Company sued its subsidiaries for infringement of plant new variety rights. The defendants were Yunnan Lanbaiwang Agriculture Co., Ltd., Yunnan Aimeizhuang Agriculture Co., Ltd., Yunnan Wangyuemei Agriculture Co., Ltd., Guangzhu (Yunnan) Agriculture Co., Ltd. and Aimeizhuang Agriculture Group Co., Ltd.

Meiming Company claimed a total of 80.4485 million yuan in compensation at the time of filing, and the first-instance judgment ordered a total payment of 8.73 million yuan. Noposion stated that its subordinate controlled companies are dissatisfied with the first-instance judgment and will file an appeal in accordance with the law.

Litigation Tug-of-War Has Lasted More Than Two Years

The dispute between Noposion and Meiming Company can be traced back to January 2024. At that time, Noposion's Lanbaiwang and Wangyuemei sued Meiming Company and Spain's Navarra Plant Co., Ltd. in court on the grounds that quality defects in the seedlings caused large-scale production reductions, claiming 94.751 million yuan and 52.2403 million yuan respectively. In April 2025, the first-instance judgment was announced, and the court ordered the defendants to compensate the two plaintiffs a total of more than 52 million yuan. All three parties - the plaintiffs and defendants - were dissatisfied with the judgment and all appealed. There is currently no subsequent public information.

Afterward, starting in March 2025, Meiming Company launched a series of lawsuits against Noposion's subsidiaries, accusing the latter of infringing its plant new variety rights, and the scale of litigation continued to expand. In April 2026, Meiming Company again sued Yanshan Manyuemei and Tengchong Wangyuemei for infringement of plant new variety rights, with the amount involved reaching 185 million yuan. Noposion's claim against Meiming Company has also reached 147 million yuan, and the cumulative amount involved in the mutual lawsuits between the two parties has reached several hundred million yuan.

Nongxun.net will continue to follow the subsequent trial progress of this case.