Ex parte Thomson

A printed publication describing a plant cultivar is an enabled disclosure where seeds are commercially available before the critical date and one of ordinary skill could grow the claimed cultivar from them.

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A language model, from how the MPEP uses this case rather than from the opinion.

Confidence

high — self-reported, not calibrated against a measured error rate

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Not reviewed by a person

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