{"id":1215,"date":"2005-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2019-01-17T23:36:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T22:36:44","slug":"sue-everyone-for-your-genetic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seegras.discordia.ch\/Blog\/sue-everyone-for-your-genetic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Everyone for your genetic pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHow to fuck up the world and sue anyone else for it<\/i><\/div>\n


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Abstract<\/h2>\n

A how to guide on polluting the world with your genetic creations, and sue everyone else for it, thanks to patents. It seems to me a lot of abominations which are generally attributed to genetics are actually effects of patents.
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Keeping things closed<\/h2>\n

In the beginning, the world was simple. You had your bacteria, spliced
\nin the extracted or artificially made gene-sequence for producing
\ninsuline, and you’ve got yourself something like a perpetuum mobile,
\na living colony of bacteria endlessly churning out insuline. Put it
\nin tanks, and with relatively low cost, you can produce a worlds
\nsupply of insuline. As long as your bacteria don’t get stolen, leak
\nout, or somebody else engineers something similar as well, that is.<\/p>\n

In any way, in that scenario, you have a very strong incentive to
\nkeep the product of your research by yourself. Since a leak, some
\nmissing bacteria could cost you a fortune. This changes only if
\nsomething else happens:<\/p>\n

Patents, Hooray!<\/h2>\n

With patents, you are granted a 20 year monopoly on anything you
\nmight be granted a patent on. Most notable, you don’t have to be
\nthe one who invented it, but only the first to apply for a patent.
\nAnd not only will keep a patent all your competitioners from stealing
\nthe fruits of your labour, no, it also keeps them from finding these
\nthings out by themselves, or applying them to anything without
\npaying you royalties — which you may or may not grant, since,
\nafter all, its competition, and you might just not want the competition
\nto produce insuline as well. Might ruin your monopoly.<\/p>\n

Neatly enough also, theres billions of species nobody ever has seen on
\nthis planet. Since the patent-office does not know them, you just can go,
\nscour the amazonas and patent whatever new life-form you might find.<\/p>\n

But now comes the best thing of all: You don’t have to give a damn what
\nhappens to your creations. Set it loose, doesn’t matter, nobody can
\nmake any profit out of it, since you got the monopoly on it. And if
\nsomebody uses your product by accident he’s also eligible for a lawsuit!<\/p>\n

Ain’t it perfect? Produce genetically enhanced grain which is immune to
\na certain pestizide but infertile, sell it and the corresponding
\npestizide, and sell both each year again. However, those damned
\nAerobacteria you used to splice the genes into the grain in the first
\nplace are at work out in the field too, and as it happens, the other
\ngrain gets to get genes from your grain, and starts to get immune to
\nthe pestizide as well, whereas your grain gets the capability for
\nreproduction back, plus along the way, some pests get immune to the
\npestizide as well. No Problem! You just fucked up a whole ecosystem,
\nbut thanks patents, everyone involved is now in violation of the patent
\nlaw and you can sue them blind.<\/p>\n

Peter Keel,<\/p>\n

2005-03-28<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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