An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
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U. S. Plant patent 1. Climbing or trailing rose. Filed Aug. 6, 1930. Issued Aug. 18, 1931.1931.This was the first patent granted for a life form. In response to complaints from the nursery industry that the future of the plant breeding industry was jeopardized by the “pirating” of new plant varieties, President Herbert Hoover signed The Plant Patent Act into law on 23 May 1930. Bosenberg's patent consists of a single black & white drawing of the rose plus one page of claims. Subjects: BOTANY, LAW and Medicine & the Life Sciences › Patents Permalink: historyofmedicineandbiology.com/id/16525 |