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Patents and Trademarks on Plants
Of the hundreds of thousands of plant cultivars in commerce or plant collections, only a relatively small proportion have been patented. A plant patent is not a seal of approval by the federal government or any other agency. A plant patent is a federal grant of an exclusionary right that simply provides a means of control for the patent owner over a new plant's propagation, use, and sale during the life of the patent.
Detailed information on plant patents and trademarks is available in NAPPO's Patents and Trademarks on Plants. This publication is available as an Adobe PDF document (30k). For more information on the PDF format, click here.
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