Plant Intellectual Property Protection Limits
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-07-14 — Fair Seeds for Farmers Act: cross-connection with fair-seeds-for-farmers-act: Both address the balance between seed/plant IP protections and farmer rights to save, use, or exchange seed; Judiciary Committee referral suggests IP-related provisions. (novelty: 2)
- 2026-07-23 — A bill to amend the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to limit intellectual property protection for plants, and for other purposes.: S5104 introduced in the 119th Senate to amend the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to limit intellectual property protection for plants; status: introduced. (novelty: 2)
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A bill to amend the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act to limit intellectual property protection for plants, and for other purposes.
23-jul-2026
novelty 2
per-area 2
introduces