How Can I Know If My Cultivar Is New and Distinct for Patenting Purposes? “So how can I know if the cultivar I bred is really new and distinct enough for patenting, because I heard it’s required for a cultivar to be ‘new and distinct’ in order to be patentable?” Here’s my answer: It is …
Plant Law: How Can I Know If My Cultivar Is New and Distinct for Patenting Purposes? Read More »
Attacking Overbroad Patents – One Person’s Evidence is Everyone’s Defense
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Still So Much Confusion about IP Options for Cannabis – Let’s Fix That
HOW’S THAT FOR A TITLE? YOU’D BETTER READ ON Hubbub Is a Word and It Happened This Week I always get the best blog ideas from questions that come up during the week, and this week was no exception. A friend of mine whom I haven’t yet met in person (interesting times, these) brought to …
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COMMON BUT VERY AVOIDABLE MISTAKES IN PLANT PATENTING Protect Those Cultivars, But Do It Right Plant breeders must devote many years and tremendous effort to develop a new plant variety with strong commercial potential. In order to protect all that effort from illicit copying (propagating), many choose to seek protection under the U.S. plant patent …
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Passage of the 2018 Farm Bill has changed the dynamics of the industrial hemp industry in the US and – probably by extension – worldwide. If you are a hemp breeder or run a seed company and are developing some unique genetics, you may be wondering how you can best structure a nationwide or international …
Hemp IP After the Farm Bill: Patenting Your Genetics – Powerful, Affordable Protection Read More »
Suppose you are a plant breeder. You know there is significant demand for a table grape that ripens two weeks earlier than anything currently on the market. Who wants to buy grapes imported from half a world away, where the seasons are different, or grapes that have been sitting in storage, if there could be …
Plant patents provide a very important tool for people, companies, and universities to protect each new variety of plant they develop. Plant patents protect the developer’s exclusive control over asexual propagation of the new variety. For information about the effort that goes into developing a new plant variety, and the importance of plant patents, click …
Perhaps you read the blog post about copyrighting a plant variety (via a patent) and thought, “If only that were enough.” Some kinds of plants cannot be propagated by cloning on a commercial scale. And there are some sets of traits that can be easily transferred by seed propagation, or transferred to other lines with …
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