Re: CULT: Patently Confused
From: Gerry Snyder <gcsnyd@loop.com>
Iarejan@aol.com wrote:
>
> From: Iarejan@aol.com
>
> In a message dated 8/15/99 7:34:46 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> vincelewonski@yahoo.com writes:
>
> << If you can patent a rose, you should be able to patent
> an iris, right? >>
> Vince,
> GADZOOKS! I hope not! Can you imagine the cost of an intro when
> everyone but the hybridizer has to pay a patent fee just to sell it???
Can you imagine how few people would buy it in the first place?
Iris have been patented (it seems that I heard it was by Schreiners, no
less), but it was deemed to have been a mistake, and not repeated.
Gerry
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