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["K Q" <kumquat@operamail.com>]

Tanis, you should give up any dreams of getting rich off your found apple. 
Who cares about patent and intellectual property rights of a roadside apple? 
Nobody is going to grow 200,000 hectares of your clone. I have personally 
discovered, and am propagating around 25 very nice roadside and fenceline 
apples. There is no apple I will not check out. These are good enough for me 
because they hang late, seem disease free, and taste pretty good. Those are 
my criteria, yours may be different. I have no illusion of any notariety 
stemming from these apples. Young kids these days are only interested in 
computers and game machines. When I was a kid, I was not interested in fruit 
either, just like them. A majority of people live in cloistered towns and 
have no room and little inclination to plant anything more than what they see 
in the grocery store. Are you old enuff to remember when the general store 
only carried sugar, coffee, flour, and nails? If there were fresh eggs there, 
it was because somebody had traded them for nails or sugar!

Protection. Baah!

Kenneth Quattlebaum




> Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:19:49 +0000
> From: "tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] non-patenting simplified
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
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> For those following the saga... After sorting some great ideas from the list
> & off-list, it looks like "keep it simple" is best.  Say you have a
> chance-seedling or sport which you either don't wish to patent (or can't
> patent because you've made it too public for too long) and don't want anyone
> else to patent it.  It seems there's no way to entirely prevent someone else
> from patenting it, especially if they are willing to lie about the plant's
> origin & history.
> 
> So, how to protect yourself-- & others to whom the plant material has been
> honestly distributed-- from the unscrupulous who may try to sue you for
> distributing your own plant material which they patented unethically ?  I
> think a simple dated & notarized document accompanying the plant material,
> and a written description of the material, would do it.  Thoughts, ideas?
> And is there a notary public on this list willing to discuss off-list?


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