On Fri, 2009-02-20 at 16:54 -0500, Chris Hoogendyk wrote:
> Perhaps just because someone has the Chutzpah to try to patent it and 
> the patent office hasn't a clue. Technology of all sorts has moved too 
> quickly for the patent office and/or the patent laws to keep up. Another 
> example is a U.S. company that uses recombinant DNA to put an unusual 
> color in a bean. Then they patent it and sue a Mexican company and block 
> imports of a bean that the Mexicans have been growing for generations. 
> That's just nucking futs.

Sounds like Monsanto at work.

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