Re: [DIYbio] Re: DIYbio projects

Simon wrote: Patent lawsuits are about people selling other
people's intellectual property, not using it.


On 06/05/2012 10:21 AM, Cathal Garvey wrote:
> Yes, I can "DIY" my own proteins at home for lulz, and nobody will care
> if I'm breaking patents.
>
> What about if I give away/sell the plasmids, allowing everyone to break
> the patents, and undercut the companies that currently live on
> artificial scarcity, imposed by the patents?
>
> Then I get sued. Not only that, their attention turns to derivatives of
> the method, to cut off other problems before they appear.




>
> Instead, we come up with "Free-Libre Open Source" DNA and methods, which
> can be infinitely derivatised without fear of patent-trolling. It's
> elementary, and obvious: this is where we're headed, and distractions
> down patent-trollable dead-ends will only waste a lot of our time and
> money as a community.

Yes, finding "just as good" non-patented methods, then locking them open
somehow, (publishing solid prior art), would be a better test
of open/free-licensing than for manufactured things,
since it is in the process patent realm. I've not heard any talk of
that in the open hardware crowd.

What kind of prior art documenting do you have in mind, Cathal?

John Griessen

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