Also on Thursday, Mr. Hevesi admitted for the first time that he had known that his longtime political consultant, Hank Morris, set himself up as a middleman between investment firms and the pension fund, an arrangement that state officials have alleged netted Mr. Morris millions of dollars and allowed him to grant a variety of favors to Mr. Hevesi's allies.
The conditions for protection, formerly found in Article 6 of the 1961 and 1978 Acts with slightly different wordings, now state, in accordance with Article 5 of the 1991 Act, that "the breeder's right shall be granted where the variety is new, distinct, uniform and stable".
Patent rights granted for GM varieties provide very strong incentives not to market the non-GM varieties but to add GM traits to any non-GM variety whether it actually contributes significantly to the advertised characteristics or not.
Burgundy lovers take the grape variety for granted; they choose their wine not by what it's made from but by where it's made and by whom.
The remainder of the pardons and commutations were granted for a wide variety of fact-based reasons, but the common denominator was that the cases, like that of Patricia Hearst, seemed to me deserving of executive clemency.
The SNP rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead announced that he would be requesting an opt-out for Scotland from EU-wide consent for GM crops, which has already been granted to a new variety of maize.
To what extent are highly restrictive intellectual private property rights granted in the form of patents' driving the replacement of non-GM varieties with fewer numbers of GM varieties?
The present dominant intellectual property paradigm, characterised by extended patent protection and stringent plant-variety protection granted within a strictly regulated formal seed market, raises the question as to whether it has successfully achieved such a balancing act in the misunderstood world of agrobiodiversity innovation.
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Rather than taking this directive for granted, Nelson delves into the varieties of cruelty perpetrated on us bourgeois for our supposed betterment, what the art critic Grant Kester has called the "orthopedic aesthetic".
