4 ms·
People 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 il
by bob29 4y ago
People 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.
- pfdietz 4y agoAnd you evidence that the patents for these potatoes was "overly broad generic obvious and/or trivial" is...?
- bob29 4y agoOur illiterate ancestors have been doing it for thousands of years.
- pfdietz 4y agoThat's a whopper of a non sequitur. I was asking about the specific patent on these potatoes. Our ancestors have been growing this specific patented version of potatoes for thousands of years? Really?
- bob29 4y agoNo, they have been cross pollinating parents with desirable traits to produce an offspring with more desirable traits. The same thing Pepsi did to make FC5 potato. Here is the patent for the FC5 potato. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6940004B2/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US6940004B2/en Read it carefully because while the patent claims that it also would apply if transgenic modifications are added, the variety was developed through just classic breeding techniques, which are described in the patent in case you aren’t familiar.
- pfdietz 4y agoAnd it's fine to patent specific (and novel) varieties of potato. The patent just applies to that specific variety, not to the general concept of improving potatoes. It's irrelevant that other specific varieties may have been bred for millenia.
- bob29 4y agoSo PepsiCo can utilize others prior breeding work, but prevents others from using their variety’s to breed with ? If everyone who bred a potato patented it, we all suffer as breeders would be limited in what they can work with. http://www.jwz.org http://www.jwz.org