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> Consider that if they couldn’t protect their work, they never would have invested the money into making these and offering them for sale to begin with. That'
by autoexec 3y ago
> Consider that if they couldn’t protect their work, they never would have invested the money into making these and offering them for sale to begin with.
That's a massive assumption. Plenty of other plants are sold every single day that aren't patented. There's zero reason to assume that they couldn't make a very nice profit on these plants without a patent. Just like every single florist in the country does.
- lukas099 3y agoThose plants probably had nowhere near the R&D costs of the glowing petunias
- shellfishgene 3y agoI think they would lose nonethless, because they are specialized on genetic modification, and if there was no patent protection any experienced mass grower of petunias could undercut them by buying a single plant, cloning it, and growing it in large numbers.
- autoexec 3y agoAnyone selling petunias last year could have also undercut the next guy selling petunias because they were already selling basically identical products, no cloning step needed, but somehow multiple florists manage to exist and be profitable.