The thing I have always wondered is, with Trademarks, in order to continue to stake a claim to them a company must vigorously defend the claim. So for instance,

The thing I have always wondered is, with Trademarks, in order to continue to stake a claim to them a company must vigorously defend the claim. So for instance, if trademark comes into wide use as a verb and the company that owns it fails to defend the trademark they risk losing the right to it. With these patents on genes, technically anyone who procreates is infringing on the patent by copying the material without consent so when a company fails to prosecute parents for for patent infringement are they setting themselves up to lose that patent?