Practice Areas

Protecting Plant and Agriculture Innovations

IP Strategies

Understanding an inventor’s or company’s business philosophy is an important foundation in helping the developing of an IP strategy. We work with our clients to understand their business philosophies to ensure that we develop an IP strategy that meets their needs and goals. 

Want to learn more? Here’s an an article our team wrote for GPN on developing an IP strategy for plant IP.

Patents and Plant Breeders Rights (PBR)

Our team has over 30 years of experience in assisting crop, flower, fruit, cannabis, sod and other plant companies in protecting their plant related innovations through the use of plant patents, utility patents and plant breeders rights. We know that the work does not end at just getting a patent or PBR, and we can help you design systems to achieve your product or idea to market. Our properly crafted agreements will allow you to have the comfort of knowing your IP rights are being respected. 

Here is an article on the basics of plant patents.

Design Patents

Design patents cover the ornamental features of a novel device. Examples in the agriculture industry may include hydroponic technologies, plows, implements, containers and packaging.

Trademarks

We also help companies market their plant related innovations through proper trademarks and branding. We also counsel our clients in proper trademark usage.

Here is an article we wrote for SeedWorld to help explain the difference between Trademarks and Plant Names: It’s Not Just Patents and PVPs

Licensing

Plant related innovations are unique. Our team has over 30 years of experience in working with licensing flowering plants, row crops, fruit plants, hemp, sod, and vegetable plants. We know the questions to ask to ensure that you have the proper licenses and agreements to meet your IP needs and strategy. 

This article, written by James Weatherly for SeedWorld, helps explain the nuances of licensing in the plant and agriculture space: Licensing Today’s Innovations

IP Compliance

We can assist our clients in an assortment of IP compliance techniques including license audits, IP investigations, and enforcement of IP rights. 

Our team wrote this in depth article to help explain the basics of enforcement of Plant IP: Hey, You Stole My Plant!