The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781305967304
Author: Frank B. Cross, Roger LeRoy Miller
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Case summary: A person RK, an employee of the USDA, gave another person JL two unreleased varieties of grapes. Such an act was unauthorized and the said varieties yielded no fecund fruit. Neither any grapes nor any plant material was sold to any other party. Though the plants were publicly visible, they were not labeled. Moreover, they couldn’t be identified by a simple viewing of the vines.

To e xplain:The applicability of USDA for patents on those two varieties of grapes.

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The Legal Environment of Business: Text and Cases (MindTap Course List)

Ch. 8 - Prob. 1RECh. 8 - Prob. 2RECh. 8 - Prob. 3RECh. 8 - Prob. 4RECh. 8 - Prob. 1ISCh. 8 - Prob. 2ISCh. 8 - Prob. 1BSCh. 8 - Prob. 2BSCh. 8 - Prob. 3BCPCh. 8 - Prob. 4BCP
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