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On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Robin Green wrote:
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:36:24AM -0500, Graham Seaman wrote:Monsanto have been granted patents on a. The traditional wheat used to make chapatis (indian bread)Actually, it's on the application of the genes from that wheat. So I suspect it would only be applicable to genetic modification, not ordinary wheat.b. The use of the wheat to make chapatisAgain, I doubt very much that they have patented a traditional hand-made method - they would probably have patented a more technological method.
Maybe. I haven't seen the actual patents, only a set of short stories about the issue: http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1135675,00.html http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13375589 http://www.mallenbaker.net/csr/CSRfiles/page.php?Story_ID=1195 All of which agree in suggesting Monsanto is embarassed enough to be promising that it won't make use of the patents, which is odd if they patents only allow for novel uses.
How much more of a mockery of patent law can companies create without destroying it completely? actual patent law certainly isn't rational and surely must become unreal pretty soon...I don't think these are necessarily the best examples of bad patents. Microsoft's XML file format patents are a better example, IMO.
Personally I think the land-grab over food and biotech - especially when it concerns staples - is way more serious than anything to do with xml. Graham _______________________ http://www.oekonux.org/
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