[permaculture-oceania] Fungi Patent

[Darren Doherty]

G'day,

This interesting yet disturbing post just came up from Brook Le Van (
www.sustainablesettings.org) on the Ibiblio Permaculture Site. As if we
don't have enough to contend with:
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Scott and all,

Hey what do you know about people patenting fungal application
processes?  Just a got a call from a fellow who after hearing about
what we are doing with the soil/ pasture restoration wants to come out
from Portland.

  He has a non-profit with patent lawyers on his board that are working
to liberate the numerous patents on the application processes for
applying specific fungal cultures to specific chemical brown fields in
bioremediation efforts.

  So we are being advised to patent this application process to protect
it for public use or we all could get sued for using it and or
teaching/promoting it!

God damn these people and this adolescent culture.

Brook LeVan

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