· 1/23/1996
Imazio Nursery, Inc. v. Dania Greenhouses, and Coastal Nursery, Jess Rodrigues, and Donna Rodrigues
Citations
- 69 F.3d 1560
How courts have described this case
Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.
- holding that “section 161 engrafts the Plant Patent Act onto the basic patent law, which requires us to apply thereto all the rules, regulations, and provisions of the basic patent law” (internal ' quotation marks omitted)
- when interpreting a statute, all parts must be construed together without according undue importance to a single or isolated portion
- all parts of a statute must be construed together without according undue importance to a single or isolated portion
- “[U]pon passage of the Plant Patent Act, a patentable variety could be either a sport, mutant, or hybrid.”
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Judges: Rich, Mayer, Lourie
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