Re: Plant Patents
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- Subject: Re: [sibrob] Plant Patents
- From: A* K*
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 09:00:48 -0500
It seems to me that there is a substantial difference between patenting a rose and patenting an iris, whether Siberian, TB, or whatever. The rose cannot be reproduced without deliberate effort, while the iris reproduces itself, whether the grower chooses to make it do that or not. (Well, o.k., sometimes it doesn't, even when I want it to, but in the normal course of things, the iris clump expands, grows more rhizomes, etc.) One who sells the excess is not, therefore, deliberately trying to capitalize on a patented flower hybridizer's rights. You have to sue the iris plant for reproducing! Iris just don't lend themselves to patenting and preventing "unauthorized" reproduction.
Arnold
Arnold & Carol Koekkoek
38 7th Street, NE
Sioux Center, IA 51250
e-mail koekkoek@mtcnet.net
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