Sentences with phrase «plant patents»

Would I travel to South Africa as the client's guest expert and testify at the hearing in front of the Registrar of Plant Patents of the South Africa Department of Agriculture?

There are no maintenance fees for plant patents.

(Burbank was posthumously awarded U.S. plant patent numbers twelve through sixteen.)

It's probably not the plant patent.

Do you need a Utility, Design, or Plant patent?

For applications filed on or after June 8, 1995, utility and plant patents are granted for a term which begins with the date of the grant and usually ends 20 years from the date you first applied for the patent subject to the payment of appropriate maintenance fees for a utility patent.

One was a popular pickled pepper that was the focus of a plant patent matter that I was consulting on.

The adventure began with email from Derek Harms, a barrister who was handling a legal action challenging a plant patent.

The hearing in the plant patent case went very well, but I had to do fight off an aggressive attorney for the other side who kept trying to put words in my mouth.

Developing the famous Golden Rice, for example, required so - called humanitarian exemptions to plant patents.

It was largely because of Burbank's extraordinary achievements in food science that the Plant Patent Act of 1930 amended U.S. patent law to provide botanists with a set of financial motivations to create new plant varieties.

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 pushed food science forward and helped power agribusiness into the second most gainful enterprise in the nation (after pharmaceuticals).

Under the umbrella of patents are three different types of patents: utility patents, design patents, and plant patents.

Your initial patent application for a utility or plant patent may be one of two types.

In exchange for publicly disclosing the invention or design, the inventor gains exclusive rights to the use of the patented device for a set amount of time, currently 20 years for utility and plant patents, 14 years for design patents.

Plant patents, though rare, involve things like new seed strains that were invented and did not naturally evolve.

A utility patent covers inventions, that is, non-obvious and useful processes, machines, manufactured articles, or compositions of matter; plant patents are issued for new varieties of plants; and design patents protect ornamental designs.

A Plant patent protects new plant varieties that have been invented or discovered and asexually reproduced.

Depending on your invention, it may qualify under a plant patent, drug patent, or a utility patent, which, if granted, should last for 20 years.