Raspberry plant named ‘Crimson Blush’ US #PlantPatent No. 37,228 (granted today) The variety was bred at Cornell University with support of federal funding from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Phalaenopsis (moth orchid) plant named ‘MI02909’ US #PlantPatent No. 37,222 (granted today) The variety was bred in Belgium as part of a breeding program to develop new fast-growing and freely flowering Phalaenopsis plants with flowers with unique patterns and coloration.

I'm really excited to have Dr Susannah Chapman (University College Cork) joining us at 12:00 GMT on Wednesday 11 February to give a talk on intellectual property, plant varieties, and fruit branding strategies. All welcome, and there's an online attendance option: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...

It's always a grim sign when Australians are looking at your country and saying "huh, this feels eerily familiar..."

Caladium plant named 'UF-15-131' US #PlantPatent No. 37,218 (granted today) The variety is distinguished by its deep red-purple blotches and tolerance to leaf sunburn when grown outside, as well as disease resistance, amongst other features.

Hubbard was able to convince the Society that he had a PhD in nuclear physics and they even made him a member of their “Scientific Advisory Board.” He'd attach an E-Meter, then stab the fruit with a nail or tear off some leaves to show that the plants were "feeling pain."

Having some weekend fun reading about atomic gardening (the use of radiation to induce mutations in plants). I totally forgot that L. Ron Hubbard was part of the British Atomic Gardening Society... that poor tomato...

yes PLEASE

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

So, to help illustrate why this thread is so horrifying, Stanford did a study on Lexis+ AI, Westlaw AI-Assisted Research, and Thomson-Reuters Ask Practical Law AI, and found between 17% and 33% hallucinations even though these are supposed to be the retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) tools.

Article from @theguardian.com by @damiengayle.bsky.social Stingless bees from the Amazon granted legal rights in world first "Planet’s oldest bee species and primary pollinators were under threat from deforestation and competition from ‘killer bees’" www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I'd love to know how on earth the International Cotton Advisory Committee ended up on this list. Have they simply listed any organisation that has dared to mention climate change recently?

'Despite all their difficulties, universities remain an enormous and irreplaceable national asset. As well as educating millions of people, they generate about £24bn in export earnings, which is about 1% of GDP – more than aircraft manufacturing and legal services combined'. 1/2

we're hiring in STS @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social! deadline coming up soon (February 8). focus is the social science-y corners of STS preferably w/ some interest in sustainability & environment - but interpreted broadly. vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...

Pineapple plant named 'FR20966' US #PlantPatent No. 37,193 (granted today) The new variety is resistant to Fusarium guttiforme (also known as fruit rot) and has fewer spines compared to its parent varieties. The variety was bred in Brazil.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

What a wrong answer

Starmer has declared his ambivalence in the strongest possible terms and announced that the British government will equivocate with immediate effect.

I'll add that Dr. Bosse has been a very kind and generous commentator for our casebook chapter on plants. We can't always fit in all the amazing details and background she provides but the chapter is much better than it would be without her comments and insights.

Happy new year! I've written a round-up of all the notable developments in plant IP in 2025. I previously discussed many of these stories in the IPKat, but I also cover some other news items that I didn't get a chance to write about during the year: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Happy new year! I've written a round-up of all the notable developments in plant IP in 2025. I previously discussed many of these stories in the IPKat, but I also cover some other news items that I didn't get a chance to write about during the year: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

Seems right 👍

calling up the guys who did the Louvre heist to see if they'll join me for One Last Job

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. Recent IUCN assessments now list the slender-billed curlew, Christmas Island shrew, three Australian bandicoots, plants in Mauritius and Hawai‘i, and a Cape Verde cone snail as extinct.

If you're looking for something to get yourself in the mood for the New Year's Eve festivities, here's my review of the book "Beer Law" Have a safe and fun start to 2026 everyone- sláinte, cheers, santé, prost, skål! ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

Epimedium plant named 'Jester's Hat' US #PlantPatent 37,187 (granted today)

My review of "Trade Secrets and Intellectual Property" by William van Caenegem and Luc Desaunettes-Barbero. ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...

Cool essay! The Munsell system - modelled on trees with unequal length branches that could accommodate different hues, chroma, and “value” - used to be quite popular for describing new plant varieties in US plant patents. These days the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Colour Chart dominates.

Petunia plant named 'KLEPH24734' US #PlantPatent No. 37,167 (granted today) The variety was a cross between 'KLEPH14245' (PP 27,045) and 'PH-2018-4744' (unpatented).

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Really vindicates my approach of "pinpoints or it didn't happen"

FINALLY!!

In this guest post, Giulia Tatangelo, Valentina Predazzi and Federico Caruso evaluate a recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and reflect on how enablement can be demonstrated in the context of plant inventions: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/gues...

Great opportunities for fully-funded PhDs in history of science and/or technology in London, for candidates from anywhere in the world.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) succeeded in the Federal Court of Australia this week, which held that CSIRO's high-amylose wheat patent was valid after all: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/whea...

🔔 Reminder that applications for this PhD studentship opportunity will be closing on 21 January.

Rose plant named 'ALTtiger' US #PlantPatent 37,149 (granted today) The variety was bred at the Altman Specialty Plants LLC nursery in California.

🚨🚨In today's "the world's most trustworthy trading partner": #US suspends technology deal with Britain. 🧵 www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

Happy Poinsettia Day - sharing this old post in case anyone's curious about the history of poinsettia plant patents. www.jocelynbos.se/blog/poinset...

Poinsettia plant named ‘Doeupfayul’ US #PlantPatent 37,131 (granted today) Under normal conditions, the variety starts flowering about November 19th in Southern California

It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.

The European Council and Parliament struck a deal around 1:00am on a new NGT regulation, with IP terms that mirror the negotiating text published in March (i.e. mandatory disclosure of patents - both granted and pending). www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

The European Council and Parliament struck a deal around 1:00am on a new NGT regulation, with IP terms that mirror the negotiating text published in March (i.e. mandatory disclosure of patents - both granted and pending). www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

This opinion from E.D. Mich. on Rule 11 and generative A.I. is an absolute *banger*. law.justia.com/cases/federa... The court specifically explains why the problem of A.I. is not limited to "hallucinating" case citations. Even plausible legal "analysis" *from an A.I.* is trouble! #LegalWriting 1/

The trialogue meeting on this topic is scheduled for today, so I'd be very surprised if the EU representatives actually had time to read the 149 page report... but the report doesn't say anything new or revelatory anyway, so it probably wouldn't make much difference to their negotiating positions.

A study published yesterday by the European Commission looks at the IP landscape (especially patents) for new genomic techniques and its impact on breeders and farmers: ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/euro...