Re: [ox-en] monsanto patent chapatis
- From: Robin Green <greenrd greenrd.org>
- Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 17:54:10 +0000
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 chapatis
Again, I doubt very much that they have patented a traditional
hand-made method - they would probably have patented a more
technological method.
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.
--
Robin
"The vast, vast majority of this work in unpaid and therefore lost
productivity to the economy." -- Niall Douglas' view of volunteering
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