Plant Patent Act of 1930

The Plant Patent Act of 1930 is a United States federal law spurred by the work of Luther Burbank. This piece of legislation made it possible to patent new varieties of plants, excluding sexual and tuber-propagated plants (see Plant Variety Protection Act). In supporting the legislation, Thomas Edison testified before Congress in support of the legislation and said,
 * "This [bill] will, I feel sure, give us many Burbanks."

Plant patents numbers 12-16, 18, 41, 65 and 66, 235, 266 and 267, 269, 290 and 291, and 1041 were issued to Burbank posthumously.