Quote Originally Posted by justpics
Nope sorry you can't patent naturally occuring plants, try again.
Umm, look up the plant patent act of 1930, and go put your nose back into the law books.

You most certainly CAN patent a plant if it didn't exist in nature previously.

For example, I have a rosebush. You will NEVER find this genetic combination in the wild (due to the massive distances that separated the parent genetics,) and it is quite firmly patented, with a metal tag and the patent numbers. Since the two strains are so far apart that they can't be bred, but close enough that they can be grafted on to each other, and due to a plants ability to insert genes into other grafted tissue, a new bloom emerges. This grafting combination whereupon the plant itself does the genetic modification to produce something not possible in the wild is patentable.

Looking up the patent numbers shows ABSOLUTELY NO genetic marking.

If you want to know the particular type of rose I am talking about, it is called 'Dream Come True' and it is a yellow rose with pink-tipped petals.

This ends our regularly scheduled educational quip. Back to you, David.