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Reforming Intellectual-Property Policies to Promote Agricultural Innovation with Dr. Leland Glenna, Penn State
Reforming Intellectual-Property Policies to Promote Agricultural Innovation with Dr. Leland Glenna, Penn State
Via Zoom RSVP Here | or email quello@msu.edu A Rural Computing Research Consortium/Quello Center joint event. Between June and September of 2024, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) accepted public comments on whether a statutory law should be established to allow an experimental use exception for products protected by utility patents. This problem has emerged because of conflicting court decisions over whether scientific research on patented products constitutes patent infringement. Agricultural crops were immune to these concerns until the 1980s, when utility patents began to be applied to living organisms. Prior to this, crops were protected by the Plant Variety Protection Act […]
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