‘Patented’ plants
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON, Oct. 29. Horticulturists who develop new varieties of plants may soon be able to patent them in the same way as the inventor of a machine.
New Zealand may be one of the first countries in the Southern Hemisphere to introduce this “plant patenting.” Under the Plant Varieties Bill, introduced in Parliament before the session closed, growers can patent their new varieties at a special Plant Varieties Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries.
The measure has been proposed by horticultural societies for several years, encouraged recently by an Irish rose-grower, Mr Sam McGredy, who is now living at St Heliers, Auckland, and plans, to breed roses in New Zealand,
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33060, 30 October 1972, Page 4
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