"Victoria Clare" wrote in message after...
Sacha wrote
Would you allow someone else use of them or your expertise and training
without payment?

Actually, yes, I do, often. Not to the point of destitution, but to the
point of helping someone out. So do you, I've noticed ;-).

I don't think the racehorse argument stacks up: you can't copy a
racehorse,
you can only charge stud fees (I think that's more like selling seed).

I didn't mean to say that Hill House should not register its plants, and
certainly not to imply that running a nursery was free or even cheap!

I said that patenting a living thing is a different matter to patenting a
gadget.

I still think that.


I have bred for my own interest/fun various plants, Irises for example, and
understand how long it can take to even get some to flowering (when you
often chuck them away) , if one was to try to do it commercially why can't
the person that has spent so much time, effort and money have some
protection from the pirate that simply buys a few plants and micropropagates
millions. If it's allowed to continue then there won't be the incentive or
money to continue to breed new plants.
It's just like the music and video pirates, it's plain theft.

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