You made a discovery and now you’d like to protect it. The U.S. Constitution, Article 1, Section 1, Clause 8 empowered Congress to pass laws “to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by ...

The Green Revolution of the 20th century increased agricultural production worldwide primarily through high-yielding plant varieties. However, in order to sustainably feed the estimated 9 billion ...

In Korea, plants can be protected by both Patent Law and Plant Variety Protection Law. Activities to seek the protection of the IP rights pertaining to plants have been growing, particularly with the ...

EPO practice of allowing patents on non-GM plants is becoming increasingly brazen, says No Patents on SeedsRecent decisions ...

Andrea Lasar and Oliver Ladendorf of Maiwald Patentanwaltsgesellschaft outline the EPO’s decision on the patentability of plant breeding methods in the so-called broccoli case In December 2010 the ...

The intricacies of plant patenting came home for me this past year with a shipment of strawberry plants. Strawberry plants send out runners, thin stems on the ends of which new plants form, which ...

“At what point does patent law protect the discovery or creation of plants or animals that contain elements that exist in nature in some form, are created using natural processes and human ...

The last two decades have seen a dramatic shift in the type and scope of intellectual property rights (IPR) available to plant-science inventors. Where plant scientists once relied on plant variety ...

Motif FoodWorks has upped the ante in a high-stakes legal dispute with plant-based meat co Impossible Foods over meaty-tasting ‘heme’ ingredients by filing a petition with the Patent Trial and Appeal ...