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[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

> Is it actually possible to take what would seem to be in 
> the public domain and actually patent it...

  No, of course not.  You may be able to patent an improvement
  if you can prove "novelty", ie., sufficient "inventive step" over the
  "prior art", and if your invention has not been made public prior
  to its filing with the patent office.
   
  I'm not really familiar with plant patents, but I think, like
  with the patenting of gene sequences, the USPO (US Patent
  Office) is the most bullish (what else), the EP (European Patent
  Office) is trying to put on the breaks (as to be expected) 
  and the Japanese Patent Office (JPO) is diplomatically
  situated somewhere therein-between.
   
  Dieter Brand
  Portugal
  
mangodance <bmn@iglou.com> wrote:
  The discussion of patents and heirlooms is puzzling and I'm trying to 
gain clarity. Is it actually possible to take what would seem to be in 
the public domain and actually patent it...such as an heirloom variety???
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On Monday 21 January 2008 08:31:14 pm Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> When my seedsavers list and my wiki/blog/forums is up and configured, a
> seedsavers resource for all of us to use will eb my first project.
> Maybe you could tell me what you'd like to see in such a resource.
>
> The front end will be the blog and from there you can go to the wiki or the
> forums or to the seedsavers list, to subscribe or to read the archives.
> Users will be required to register in order to post anything anywhere;
> public can browse.
>
> How would a seedsavers Data & Resource Center be structured (using our
> wiki)?
The simple answer is to recreate the structure of the SSE Catalog. The table 
of contents article would be a general preface to the catalog. From it would 
hang the several articles usually listed at the beginning and end of the 
contents. The body of the contents would be the alphabetical list of plant 
types: amaranth, apple, apricot, etc. To keep the list shorter use a 
hierarchy for beans, beets, etc.

Contributors would edit in their contact/summary information:

        NE WO E - Jay Woods, 3918 N 23rd St., Omaha, NE 68110-1728. Organic 
seed. 
        Scion wood shipped on March 15th unless you request a different ship 
date. 
        2 apples. 1 peach. 3 total.

Contributors would also edit in their contribution:

        Apple 

                Fameuse - NE WO E - descriptive text.