{"id":267,"date":"2014-12-05T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T20:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/blog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2014-12-06T01:47:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-06T06:47:50","slug":"announcing-patent-tracker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/blog\/2014\/12\/05\/announcing-patent-tracker\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing our plant patent tracker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_273\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/patent25095.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-image-273 size-medium\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/patent25095-260x300.png\" alt=\"PP25095, submitted image\" title=\"PP25095, submitted image\" width=\"260\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/patent25095-260x300.png 260w, https:\/\/www.hort.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/patent25095.png 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PP25095, submitted image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been interested in plant patents for a while at hort.net. \u00a0It&#8217;s fascinating to track them and see what&#8217;s in the pipes for floriculture, crop sciences, or landscaping. \u00a0We realized that it was becoming tedious to monitor this stuff using the standard tools that are out there, so we started populating our own database with plant patent data.<\/p>\n<p>Every Tuesday <a title=\"hort.net plant patents\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/pedia\/patent\/\" target=\"_blank\">we report on the past week&#8217;s issue plant patents<\/a>. \u00a0Right now we just give you the name of the plants that patents were issued for, but we&#8217;re extending our database to include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>assignee<\/li>\n<li>inventor (breeder\/discoverer)<\/li>\n<li>attorney<\/li>\n<li>patent examiner<\/li>\n<li>applicant city\/state\/country<\/li>\n<li>expiration date<\/li>\n<li>scientific name<\/li>\n<li>all plant patents available electronically, back to December 1976<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We think it would be interesting to be able to search for all of the patents issued to a given breeder, see which countries are specializing in hybridization\u00a0of what species, etc.<\/p>\n<p>What features would <i>you<\/i> like to see? \u00a0Comment below, and <a title=\"hort.net plant patents\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hort.net\/pedia\/patent\/\" target=\"_blank\">check back every Tuesday to see the latest updates<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been interested in plant patents for a while at hort.net. \u00a0It&#8217;s fascinating to track them and see what&#8217;s in the pipes for floriculture, crop sciences, or landscaping. \u00a0We realized that it was becoming tedious to monitor this stuff using the standard tools that are out there, so we started populating our own database with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18,4],"tags":[19,12],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hort-net","category-legal","category-technology","tag-patents","tag-plant"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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