Farmers want UH to just drop taro patents


It looks likes I jumped the gun in congratulating Walter Ritte and others about the UH decision to give up its hybrid taro patents to a Hawaiian entity, as it appears from today's Star-Bulletin story that Ritte and others want the university to just drop the patents altogether, and dismissing the university's fear that others outside the university would claim the patents. "Hawaiians are saying that the taro cannot be owned, so why would the Hawaiians want to own it?" Ritte said. I still like the idea of exploring some patent equivalent of an open source general public license or Creative Commons Deed.


Posted: Tue - June 6, 2006 at 07:35 AM    
   
 
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