Plant Variety Protection Act Amendments: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Department Investigations Oversight, and Research of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Ninety-sixth Congress, First and Second Sessions, on H.R. 999, July 19, 1979, and April 22, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 330 pages |
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Academy of Sciences American Seed Trade April 17 Auburn University basic benefits bill breeding programs certificate Chairman commercial Committee concern CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservation consumers corn corporations cost countries Department Investigations Department of Agriculture disease European farmers Fort Collins GARZA gene genetic diversity genetic material genetic uniformity genetic vulnerability germ germplasm Green Revolution growers hearings hybrid important improved increase investment issue LA GARZA LEESE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS MOONEY National Academy patent system pests plant breeders plant genetic resources Plant Patent Act plant patenting laws Plant Variety Protection plasm problem production proposed amendments protected varieties question resistance SCHLEI scientists Section sector seed companies seed industry Seed Trade Association six vegetables soybean species statement Subcommittee on Department supra testimony Thank tion tomatoes U.S. Department United UPOV Convention USDA Variety Protection Act WAMPLER Washington wheat
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Page 9 - ... shall thereafter have the same effect as if the same had been originally issued in such corrected form, or in the discretion of the Commissioner a new certificate of registration may be issued without charge.
Page 118 - States became a member of the International Union for the Pro-tection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).
Page 126 - novel variety" may be represented by, without limitation, seed, transplants, and plants, and is satisfied if there is: (1) Distinctness in the sense that the variety clearly differs by one or more identifiable morphological, physiological or other characteristics (which may include those evidenced by processing or product characteristics, for example, milling and baking characteristics in the case of wheat) as to which a difference [difference] in genealogy may contribute evidence, from all prior...
Page 7 - Service administers a program that provides for the issuance of "certificates of plant variety protection." These certificates afford developers of novel varieties of sexually reproduced plants exclusive rights to sell, reproduce, import, or export such varieties, or use them in the production of hybrids or different varieties for a period of 20 years for non-woody plants and 25 years for woody plants.
Page 108 - ... necessary in order to insure an adequate supply of fiber, food, or feed in this country and that the owner is unwilling or unable to supply the public needs for the variety at a price which may reasonably be deemed fair.
Page 35 - Seed of a variety for which a certificate of plant variety protection under the Plant Variety Protection Act specifies sale only as a class of certified seed shall be certified only when "(1) the basic seed from which the variety was produced was furnished by authority of the owner of the variety...
Page 145 - Canadian Council for International Cooperation and the International Coalition for Development Action, London. Ottawa, Ont. . 1983. The law of the seed, another development and plant genetic resources.
Page 163 - Uniformity in the sense that any variations are describable, predictable and commercially acceptable; and (3) Stability in the sense that the variety, when sexually reproduced or reconstituted, will remain unchanged with regard to its essential and distinctive characteristics with a reasonable degree of reliability commensurate with that of varieties of the same category in which the same breeding...
Page 92 - The technology of production by the masses, making use of the best of modern knowledge and experience is conducive to decentralization, compatible with the laws of ecology, gentle in its use of scarce resources, and de• signed to serve the human person instead of making him the servant of machines.
Page 249 - Without objection, we will make that a part of the record. ( The case referred to appears on pp.