No no!!!

I meant that the patents often refer to relevant texts which might be of use
to you!

For example, there is a recent US Patent....

United States Patent 6,696,619

Famodu , et al. February 24, 2004

"PLANT AMINOACYL-tRNA SYNTHASES"



which has the following abstract....................



Abstract

This invention relates to an isolated nucleic acid fragment encoding an
aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase. The invention also relates to the construction of
a chimeric gene encoding all or a portion of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase,
in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the chimeric gene
results in production of altered levels of the aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase in
a transformed host cell.

It is the "other references" below which might be of use...



Other References

Bork, P. Genome Research, vol. 10, p. 398-400, 2000.*

Wolfgang Freist et al., Threonyl-tRNA Synthetase, Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler,
vol. 376, pp 213-224, Apr. 1995.

Neidhart et al., (1975) Annu. Rev. Microbiol. 29:215-250.

Eriani et al. (1990) Nature 347:203-206.

Lloyd et al., (1995) Nucleic Acid Research 23(15):2882-2892.

NCBI General Identifier No. 3319776.

NCBI General Identifier No. 2501056.

NCBI General Identifier No. 3617770.

Plant Physiol. 121, 1053-1055 (1999) Nykiforuk et al.

Ovesna et al., Plant Mitochondria, From Gene to Function: 139-142 (1998).

Weygand-Durasevic, Nucleic Acid Research 15(5), 1887-1904 (1987) (Medline
87174725).

Pape et al., Nucleic Acid Research 13(17), 6171-6183 (1985) (Medline
86016080).



Note that patents are primarily LEGAL documents, so that the scientific bits
will have to be checked thoroughly.





"Darren Garrison" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 11:09:36 +1100, "Peter Jason"
wrote:

I would try the American patent office at first - there is a section on
plants and cultivars - at
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm

These patents also have references to other patents and texts.

Plus, I find the very IDEA of patening a plant or animal to be utterly
idiotic-- and I don't care to
hear about "business models".