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> proprietary bacteria harvested from nature So which is it, proprietary or natural? You can't own something you didn't create.
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> proprietary bacteria harvested from nature
So which is it, proprietary or natural? You can't own something you didn't create.
- samatman 4y ago> You can't own something you didn't create. Ah Hacker News. Never change.
- tuukkah 4y ago"previously unknown bacteria". Proprietary does not imply copyright, because they may have other property such as patents and trade secrets instead.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agowhichever - how can you have any form of ownership over a natural bacteria?
- tuukkah 4y ago1) By keeping the bacteria a secret: not telling which bacteria can be used like this, not telling where you can find it in the nature, not giving anyone a piece of the bacteria culture to use. 2) By patenting the industrial process that makes use of the bacteria, thus gaining an exclusive commercial right to it.
- arthur2e5 4y agoIt’s kept by patenting of the process involving the bacteria and the bioreactor, I think. Google Patent query: https://patents.google.com/?assignee=%22Solar+foods%22&oq=%22Solar+foods%22 https://patents.google.com/?assignee=%22Solar+foods%22&oq=%2... Now CA3153196A1 is the interesting one as it names Xanthobacter sp. VTT-E-193585 as the strain of interest. You even get a 16S rRNA sequence with it for doing some taxonomy! This is not to be confused with FI129574B involving a similar but genetically modified bacterium.
- astrange 4y agoMeat animals were originally from nature too, but you still have to raise them and breed them properly. They're just bacteria ranchers.