Comments on: Busy Lizzies in a hanging pot https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/08/busy-lizzies-in-a-hanging-pot/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 24 May 2008 01:52:27 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jim Collins https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/08/busy-lizzies-in-a-hanging-pot/comment-page-1/#comment-3901 Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:55:58 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3884#comment-3901 I’ve never been too thrilled with being able to patent living things. If it can be shown that this plant exists in the wild then I think the patent should be disallowed. As far as this “developing countries” bit, what has been taken from them? Since when does a country own a type of plant? If you follow this line of thought, should every country that grows corn pay the countries in North America, where corn originated.

By patenting this plant, does this company also assume the liability for any ecological problems that it may cause? My bet is that the first time this issue is raised they will be quick to point out that this plant DOES occurr in Nature and they shouldn’t be held accountable.

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