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> just like any other _novel_ invention--plants are no different. They are. E.g. Monsanto didn't invent the glyphosate-resistance gene for their Roundup Ready
by tarakat 4y ago
> just like any other _novel_ invention--plants are no different.
They are. E.g. Monsanto didn't invent the glyphosate-resistance gene for their Roundup Ready GM crops. The gene was already present in nature, and Monsanto merely copied it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready#Genetic_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready#Genetic_engineer...
- kickout 4y agoThe novelty was taking it out of one species and putting it into another for a specific purpose. Mother nature didn't transfer that gene across species. How that isn't worthy of IP is not clear to me.
- tarakat 4y agoIf by "that" you mean gene transfer technology, then I agree. But they also want to patent the result - they do not want a different lab with access to that same technology to be allowed to take a naturally occurring gene and transfer it into crops.