OSA and the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) will co-host a three-part listening session series focused on seed. The …
Seed Commons & Ownership: A Listening Session on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
November 19, 2020
9:00 a.m. Pacific / 10:00 a.m. Mountain / 11:00 a.m. Central / 12:00 p.m. Eastern | Zoom
9:00 a.m. Pacific / 10:00 a.m. Mountain / 11:00 a.m. Central / 12:00 p.m. Eastern | Zoom
Organic Seed Alliance (OSA), Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, and the National Center for Appropriate …
Seed Patent Watch Project
Seed belongs in the hands of the people, not the patent holder. It's come to OSA's attention that several small organic seed companies in …
Seed Patent Watch
Restricting people from continuing our co-evolution with plants for food security is an attack on humanity today and on future generations. …
The New York Times Puts Spotlight on Organic Seed
The New York Times recently put organic seed in the spotlight with a pointed opinion piece by Dan Barber, titled: "Save Our Food. Free the …
Largest Organic Seed Event in the Nation to Take Place this February
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 30, 2017 CONTACTS Cathleen McCluskey, Organic Seed Alliance, (360) 472-0247, …
Proceedings Showcase Best Practices for Sustaining Public Plant Breeding
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2017 CONTACT Bill Tracy, Professor and Chair, Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, …
Patently Wrong
In this interview, medical ethicist Harriet Washington describes the extent to which medical researchers use (and abuse) the patent system. …
The President and Seed
Cross-posted from Daily Yonder Last week President Obama held a town hall meeting on the grounds of Iowa’s Seed Savers Exchange, an …
Confronting Patents on Plants
Last month, the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses, and organic agriculture …
Lobbying Dollars Flow from Patent Holders
Food and Water Watch recently released a report that measured the breadth of agricultural biotechnology lobbying dollars flowing into …
U.S. Finally Talking About Patent Reform
The New York Times headline this past weekend seemed too good to be true: "U.S. Says Genes Should Not Be Eligible for Patents." In a …
