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American companies had patented many famous varieties of rice[1] and other corp. Not to mention many medicinal plants that is being used in India not for centur
by fakeer 14y ago
American companies had patented many famous varieties of rice[1] and other corp. Not to mention many medicinal plants that is being used in India not for centuries but millennia. USPO granted them all that. Luckily Indian Govt showed some ball at that time(which is remarkably rare), and they directly told the patent holders to stuff it up their ae.
Matter was settled.
Can't sth like that happen in computers and Internet?
(BTW, it seems either USPO is very corrupt or very negligent. Or maybe they don't give a damn!).
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati#Patent_battle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basmati#Patent_battle
- pyre 14y agoI doubt very much that the USPTO is getting kickbacks to pass patents through. As I understand it, "number of patents granted" is the metric they use for success, which puts a lot of pressure on the patent examiners at the bottom rung to do very basic research before pushing things through. Basically, there is no incentive for them to do a diligent job, so they don't.