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Tag: Patents

Seed Policy · December 19, 2022

Take Action: Submit Comments on Seed Patents by Feb. 1, 2023


The Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) is currently accepting public comments on new initiatives to ensure "robust and reliable patents." The …

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November 19, 2020

Seed Commons & Ownership: A Listening Session on IPR


Organic Seed Alliance and co-hosts Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems and National Center for Appropriate …

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Events · November 9, 2020

OSA Announces a Three-Part Listening Session Series


OSA and the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) will co-host a three-part listening session series focused on seed. The …

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October 6, 2020

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

Organic Seed Alliance (OSA), Vermont Law School's Center for Agriculture and Food Systems, and the National Center for Appropriate …

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Seed Policy · September 14, 2020

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 …

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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. …

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Media Spotlight · June 19, 2019

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 …

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November 30, 2017

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, …

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July 24, 2017

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, …

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Seed Policy · November 8, 2011

Patently Wrong


In this interview, medical ethicist Harriet Washington describes the extent to which medical researchers use (and abuse) the patent system. …

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Seed Policy · August 24, 2011

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 …

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Seed Policy · April 28, 2011

Confronting Patents on Plants


Last month, the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit on behalf of 60 family farmers, seed businesses, and organic agriculture …

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