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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to purchase Fresh Citrus products for distribution to various food nutrition assistance programs. Purchases will be made under the authority of Section 32 of the Act of August 24, 1935 (Section 32).
Potential materials may include:
United States Standards for Rice AMS-FGIS-25-0155
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced that first handlers and importers of mangos voted to continue the National Mango Board’s research and promotion program.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is amending the U.S. Standards for Grades of Orange Juice by changing the limits for Grade B Brix allowances in Pasteurized Orange Juice.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing a rule to establish the free and restricted percentages of tart cherries grown in Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin that handlers may purchase from, or handle on behalf of, tart cherry growers during the 2024-25 crop year.
After consideration of public comments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) will be terminating its master scale testing program and closing the master scale depot in Chicago, Ill. This action aligns with AMS’s Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) mission to streamline official service delivery and return to its core functions and services mandated by the United States Grain Standards Act (USGSA).
To get a patent in the United States, the Patent Act requires patent applicants to include enough written information that a person of ordinary skill in the art could make and use the invention. This description, commonly known as “enablement,” is an essential component of the intellectual property system, which aims to create an incentive to innovate while delivering the benefits of the innovation to the public. With biological materials, a person may need access to the physical biological material the inventor has created in order to make and use it.
A Preissuance Submission (PIS) is a submission of evidence challenging the validity of the claims made about a pending patent application before the patent is granted. When patent examiners evaluate whether an invention claimed in a patent application is new, useful, and non-obvious, they look for “prior art” — any evidence that what is in the claim has already been described.
