Patent Storm US Patent 5523520 -

Patent Storm ‘offers the full-text U.S. patents and patent applications from the U.S. Patent Office’. In this case the process of a dwarfism gene which produces a petunia plant and flower which are reduced in size.

Plant Breeders’ Rights PBR’s are a form of intellectual property that offers legal protection for the investment plant breeders make in breeding and developing new varieties.

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