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That is still irrelevant. You should not be able to sue someone for having your stuff. You should be able to sue them for stealing it. In this case it was not s
by spywaregorilla 4y ago
That is still irrelevant. You should not be able to sue someone for having your stuff. You should be able to sue them for stealing it. In this case it was not stolen. It was planted and spread naturally. And then the farmers chose to keep using the things that things that had basically fallen into their laps.
- tptacek 4y agoI really don't care if you think all patents are bogus. That is the most boring conceivable debate to have. There is nothing special about seeds to change the argument; that's all I'm here to say.
- fragmede 4y agoWhat's special about seeds is they reproduce with a bit of water, soil, and sunlight. My laptop does not and in fact will be very sad if I water it. Thus no matter how many patents Intel has on the things inside my laptop, there's a limit on how much I can ultimately do with the physical device.
- tptacek 4y agoNothing you can do with water, soil, and sunlight is going to produce RoundUp --- or a RoundUp-Ready seed. It's perfectly reasonable to oppose all patents. Just don't pretend the wind, sun, and dirt somehow invalidate seed patents. There's no distinction to draw.
- bob29 4y agoPeople have been sued for growing patented potatoes, unrelated to round up . . . Ok? U take tuber u put it in ground it grows more tubers u try to sell BOOM illegal son .
- tptacek 4y agoUh huh.
- bob29 4y ago[Square bracket number citation link thingy https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pepsi-farmers/pepsico-sues-four-indian-farmers-for-using-its-patented-lays-potatoes-idUSKCN1S21EL https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pepsi-farmers/pepsi...] 0
- bob29 4y agoHe doesn’t respond so I win by default . Righteous troll:1 Capitalist corporation defender: 0
- pfdietz 4y agoSo, your objection to patents is that they are enforced when violated?
- bob29 4y agoNo. Objection when they are overly broad generic obvious and\or trivial Am surprised even need to explain on this forum of coders. Many examples of bad boy software patents.
- jiminymcmoogley 4y agoWouldn't this actually be an argument in favor of seed patents? I've been more or less a complete IP abolitionist for so long now that thinking in IP maxi terms is basically a foreign language to me now, but wouldn't they make the argument that it's necessary to allow protections where the good is A. hard to develop initially and B. easy to reproduce?
- pfdietz 4y agoExactly. GMO seeds are a best case for patent protection, in the same league as new drugs.