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Post by rowan on Dec 11, 2015 16:52:42 GMT -5
Hi, does anyone know if the Chinese space vegetables are patented. I guess they are but I can't find any info about it on the web. I have put some space chilli seeds in and want to know if I can save seed.
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Post by richardw on Dec 12, 2015 11:53:17 GMT -5
Even if they were patented, you are able to save and trade/give seed, you just cant sell it.
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Post by raymondo on Dec 12, 2015 16:08:54 GMT -5
I thought patenting prohibited even the saving of seed. Isn't that what got Percy Schmeiser in trouble with Monsanto?
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Post by steev on Dec 12, 2015 16:39:02 GMT -5
Sure was, as well as another poor bastard whose crimes were threshing farmers' GMO-contaminated seed for them to save.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 12, 2015 19:09:51 GMT -5
well then... If it isn't owned by Monsanto, then you can save seed.  Besides, the Chinese rip off patents like it's candy, so why shouldn't we do the same to them? (i'm only half kidding). (in fairness i do not mean to be mean to any particular group, especially if there happen to be any Chinese members on the forum). When it comes to patents i take some issue the way the system works as it is now. If something seems legitimately like it deserves a patent then i will do my best to abide by it. If it doesn't then i don't recognize any claim they make and i do what i want anyway. I'm never in a position to sell those items though, so it's just for personal use, which i consider to be fair anyway. It's especially distasteful when scientists from universities patent human genes that they discover and then make it so it's illegal for even other universities to do research on those genes. Genes that are in the public domain human genome to begin with. Stuff like that just makes me sick. |
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Post by philagardener on Dec 12, 2015 21:13:30 GMT -5
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Besides, the Chinese rip off patents like it's candy, so why shouldn't we do the same to them? (i'm only half kidding).