Donna Fezler wrote:
> It was filed on January 15, 1999 and it has been approved already?
> Supposedly the USPTO is above corruption, but it usually takes at least 18
> months for the first review. 95 % of patents are rejected at the first
> review. It takes about 6 months from approval to issuance, so this patent
> was reviewed and approved within 5 months of application. HMMM.
>
> Donna Fezler
> GCR
> Jacksonville, IL
>
> http://www.rhealiving.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu [mailto:owner-sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu]On
> Behalf Of wytze
> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 1999 12:27 PM
> To: mmiller@pcsia.com
> Cc: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: New Novartis Patent VI
>
> I wonder if this mycotoxin story did not come up as a result of the patent,
> given
> the fact that the patent was filed 14 january 1999.
> Furthermore, the "advantage" of increased pollination may be a great comfort
> to
> all of us.
> I also wonder where the New Scientist got the 20% yield increase. It is not
> mentioned in the patent.
> wytze
> P.S. I loved your new patent ideas!
>
> mmiller@pcsia.com wrote:
>
> > >Synergistic effects and advantages of the "invention" as described in
> > >patent WO9935913.
> > The term
> > >"synergistic", however, is in no way to be understood in this connection
> > >as being restricted to the pesticidal activity, but the term also refers
> > >to other advantageous properties of the method according to the
> > >invention compared with the nitroimino- or nitroguanidino-compound and
> > >the transgenic useful plant alone.
> > >Examples of such advantageous properties which may be mentioned are:
> >
> > >-enhanced crop safety; snip
> > > reduced content of toxic products such as mycotoxins, snip
> >
> > I wonder what the people who published the mycotoxin discovery think about
> > their idea being part of somebodyelse's patent?
> >
> > Also how much of the legal cost to determine what percentage of the
> reduced
> > mycotoxin benefit is attributable to the BT and what is due to the
> > pesticide synergy (and then there are those pesky changes in that
> > relationship as a function of soil type, weather conditions and other
> > factors like carrier insect populations) will be passed onto the end users
> > as higher food costs?
> >
> > Or maybe as in another industry I was in, just the fact that a large
> > corporation has managed to get a patent from the new improved and defunded
> > Patent Office that includes a prior art idea will be enough to not only
> > keep them from using the prior art idea but will keep them from even
> > challangeing the illegal patent due to lack of resources to do legal
> battle
> > with a large corporation.
> >
> > On the level of no moral constraints in the battle of corporations, this
> > patent is a Very Beautiful Strategy. Think of it,
> >
> > I patent how people can use your products including the use of your
> > pesticide on your herbicide and pesticide resistant crops.
> >
> > I now control how your customers can use your products through the license
> > they are required to buy from me due to my patent on the use of your
> products.
> >
> > So the question becomes : "How much of your value stream to your customers
> > will I take in license fees? "
> >
> > I love it. This system may very well collapse under the weight of its own
> > avarice. "Plutocracy today, plutocracy tomorrow, plutocracy forever" with
> > apologies to George Wallace. Mike Miller
> >
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