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How can the company patent the broccoli when they received their seeds from the professor, an uninvolved 3rd party (To the point that their lawyers are asking h
by rurounijones 12y ago
How can the company patent the broccoli when they received their seeds from the professor, an uninvolved 3rd party (To the point that their lawyers are asking him for more samples when they made their patent claims).
Isn't this de-facto prior art?
- tormeh 12y agoBut one is a person and the other is a person. Some are more equal than others. Get it? ;)
- andrzejsz 12y agoRubbish american legal system
- jap 12y agoFrom the same paragraph: "They needed the Oregon State plants for comparison to prove their invention was, in patent language, truly “novel.”" They're trying to show that their plants are different from the Oregon State plants.