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Why the fear of GM Crops?
Runed out patents are the future?
The patent for the drug in Viagra expired long time ago but somehow multinationals have the ability to keep exploiting those patents that are still profitable or that later return to being profitable. US congressmen get bribed all the time to maintain this mafia. You have to remember that a patent is not a wall, is just a legal artifact that allows the extraction of ransom by technical and legal pirates. They can still sue you, even if not violating any patent. Oz wrote: Jerry writes A patent on life is not legally feasible because life has already been created. You are using hyperbole. You are really talking about patents on specific, man made (not naturally occurring)cultivars. And it would be stupid to use a patent as a trade blocking mechanism. To be profitable, one would need their patented product traded liberally so as to reap liscensing revenue. People have been patenting all sorts of genes all over. If patenting is to be allowed to do this then it's worth noting that patents run out, and surprisingly quickly. So in a way the more that get patented, almost always without any short term chance of being used commercially, then the more that fall off of patent in 30 years and counting. -- Oz This post is worth absolutely nothing and is probably fallacious. Note: soon (maybe already) only posts via despammed.com will be accepted. |
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