Plant Variety Protection Act: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on S. 23 ... S. 1580 ... and S. 2820 ... June 17 and 18, 1980U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 211 pages |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Academy of Sciences acreage agencies American Seed Trade areas benefits bill Cary Fowler centers certificate Chairman commercial Committee concerned CONGRESS THE LIBRARY conservation consumer corn corporations cost crop varieties Department of Agriculture disease environmental extinction farm farmers firms FOWLER gardeners gene genetic diversity genetic material genetic uniformity genetic vulnerability germ germplasm Germplasm Resources hearings hybrid improved increase issue LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LODEN Major Crops ment multinational National Academy National Plant Norman Borlaug nutritional Patent Law patenting process percent pests plant breeders plant genetic resources Plant Patent Act Plant Variety Protection plasm problem production propagating material proposed amendments PVPA question requirements resistance SCHLEI Section sector seed companies seed industry Seed Trade Association Senator STEWART soybeans species statement supra testimony Third World tion trend U.S. Department U.S. Senate United UPOV USDA Variety Protection Act vegetables Vulnerability of Major wheat
Popular passages
Page 123 - ... such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains, or with which it is most nearly connected, to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Page 123 - The specification shall contain a written description of the invention, and of the manner and process of making and using it, in such full, clear, concise, and exact terms as to enable any person skilled in the art to which it pertains ... to make and use the same, and shall set forth the best mode contemplated by the inventor of carrying out his invention.
Page 196 - ... shall have the same effect and operation in law, on the trial of actions for causes thereafter arising, as if the same had been originally granted in such amended form...
Page 123 - No plant patent shall be declared invalid for noncompliance with section 112 of this title if the description is as complete as is reasonably possible.
Page 155 - 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 76 - Market" before the Subcommittee on Agricultural Research and General Legislation, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, May 1, 1980.
Page 146 - 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 in genealogy may contribute evidence, from all prior varieties of...
Page 122 - It has been the policy of the Department of Agriculture since the...
Page 72 - States became a member of the International Union for the Pro-tection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).
Page 100 - Education, the Association of State Colleges and Universities, and the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges. The views of all of these associations on the merits of the bills before you are identical.