pdabbadabba

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by pdabbadabba 13y ago
Because it answers the question whether replanting the seeds of a patented GMO plant counts as a permissible use under the patent exhaustion doctrine or whether it's patent infringement. Absent this ruling, a court might have concluded that
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by pdabbadabba 13y ago
In many (though far from all) cases, the answer is actually "yes, they are." By treaty.
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by pdabbadabba 13y ago
Right. And that's because the patentability of a seed or plant was decided by SCOTUS in 2001 in J. E. M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred Int’l, Inc., 534 U. S. 124 (2001). People who keep hoping for a ruling from SCOTUS that organisms ar
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by pdabbadabba 14y ago
Those reasons being that they came into physical proximity with one another and possibly exchanged a few words? I've looked at the pictures and see nothing "suspicious" about them at all except that they're brown and a little scruffy looki
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by pdabbadabba 14y ago
I think this is a good question. I can tell you that, here in NYC these services do get a fair bit of use (seamless.com, in particular, though I think GrubHub may also be popular). I attribute this to the combination of a large number of a
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by pdabbadabba 14y ago
It's not a fun situation, but there's an obvious answer: come to grips with the fact that the idea is valuable. More specifically, it is just as valuable as you and the rest of the world make it. Negotiate. If there is a project you really
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by pdabbadabba 14y ago
I'm as bored by micro-updates about FB's share price as the next person, but consider two propositions: 1. Drastic drops aren't the only interesting ones. If FB were to decline slowly all the way to (say) zero, presumably the decline would