<pre><b>Tim Fournet wrote:</b><br>> I hope you're not suggesting that farmers learn how to brew their own <br>> pesticides ;) . <br><br>I think a farmer with enough resources who wants to ought to be able <br>to. I bet one would need to be certified or licensed due to the
<br>nature and dangers of a process like that, but I was questioning the <br>reasoning used to slow others from immediately competing. <br><br>> Manufacturing pesticides is very difficult and very <br>> dangerous. <br>
<br>No doubt about it.<br><br>> It's also one of those areas where patents are a good idea. <br>> They allow someone to invent a pesticide, even if they don't have the <br>> manufacturing abilities required to sell the product themselves in
<br>> volume and get them to market. Just the act of getting it approved for <br>> use in each state is a LOT of work, something that you'd need the <br>> resources of a large company for. <br><br>I haven't seen anything which suggests countries without patent laws have
<br>trouble getting products to market. Its a large industry, a large problem, <br>a solution is needed and someone will try to solve it but someone else <br>often will not be satisfied with the first solution. Why slow the second?
<br><br>> It's also not really practical to keep <br>> it as a trade secret, as the government needs to know the composition in <br>> order to approve it.<br><br>I agree, maybe companies shouldn't be allowed to keep those kinds of secrets.
<br><br>> Patents (or my escrow idea) protect the private <br>> inventor and allow him to sell his idea. <br><br>I like the escrow idea, but tell that to Nikola Tesla.<br>(<span style="font-family: mon;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">
</span></span>rhetorical...hes dead)<br><br>> The time period doesn't have to <br>> be long at all. <br><br>Time is certainly one of the biggest factors but it seems clear to me that the <br>push for more power & value will always be a main goal of patent purchasing corporations.
<br>FYI, one of the fastest growing industries in America is....Lobbying!<br><a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/8307867/">http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6448213/did/8307867/</a><br><br>> but a few years from now, the
<br>> inventor would have gotten justly compensated for his contribution.<br><br>One would hope.<br>But do you even need to be the inventor to be granted a patent?<br><br></pre>