Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Hi Peter Hi Keith ; Great detective work thanks. Outlawing patents on living organisms need not be difficult or painful for corporations. Let's say the Patent Office says that 3 years from now, the law will be effective. What would happen? Well, you could expect a rush of patent

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19781-2005Feb12.html U.S. Denies Patent for a Too-Human Hybrid Scientist Sought Legal Precedent to Keep Others From Profiting From Similar 'Inventions' By Rick Weiss Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, February 13, 2005; Page A03 A New York

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

lol, a scanner darkly, etc. . . . :-) Or just stranger than fiction... (though it's not easy to be stranger than Philip K. Dick). Best Keith On 9/21/08, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter Fascinating indeed. I don't know of the outcome if any, but I'll look around.

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Hi Keith ; Great detective work thanks. Outlawing patents on living organisms need not be difficult or painful for corporations. Let's say the Patent Office says that 3 years from now, the law will be effective. What would happen? Well, you could expect a rush of patent applications for

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Hi Peter Hi Keith ; These are ominous developments, but far worse should be expected eventually. Yes, 'fraid so. As we discussed before, the answer here is to treat life forms like perpetual motion machines. In other words, you cannot get a patent on any kind of perpetual motion machine.

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Hi Keith ; Fascinating article on this subject. But it is dated 1999, any idea of any progress that has been made? http://www.organicconsumers.org/Patent/rifikinhc.cfm US Human/Chimpanzee Life Form Patent Challenge by Jeremy Rifkin Stuart Newman Will Now Go to the Federal Courts U.S. Ruling

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Hi Peter Fascinating indeed. I don't know of the outcome if any, but I'll look around. Undaunted, Newman yesterday filed an appeal to the patent office. It's great when people get undaunted. Private ownership of inventions is not the only way progress has been made in the history of science

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

lol, a scanner darkly, etc. . . . On 9/21/08, Keith Addison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Peter Fascinating indeed. I don't know of the outcome if any, but I'll look around. Undaunted, Newman yesterday filed an appeal to the patent office. It's great when people get undaunted. Private

[Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Climate ready GM crops: The patent race Rajesh Chhabara ClimateChangeCorp, 17 Sep 2008 http://www.climatechangecorp.com/content.asp?ContentID=5644 GM food special report: Crops that survive climate change The world's big seed companies face claims of bio-piracy and a tough fight with activists

Re: [Biofuel] Climate ready GM crops: The patent race

Hi Keith ; These are ominous developments, but far worse should be expected eventually. As we discussed before, the answer here is to treat life forms like perpetual motion machines. In other words, you cannot get a patent on any kind of perpetual motion machine. Similarly, you should not be