UVM Extension: Plants and intellectual property; Rutland Herald, March 18, 2023

Nadie Vanzandt, Rutland Herald; UVM Extension: Plants and intellectual property

"On May 23, 1930, President Herbert Hoover signed into law a bill called the Plant Patent Act. This bill was created to encourage private investment in plant breeding while protecting growers who spent extensive time (sometimes years) and money perfecting a cultivar only to have their invention freely reproduced and sold by others for profit."