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.
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