[Obi_Juan_Kenobi]

Uh, plant patents are one of only a handful of patent varieties (in the US), and they exist specifically to cover new breeds. This is very much a patent-able breed, and much more easily enforced because it's a well characterized bit of law, whereas the 'gene patents' only got by on a technicality of requiring cDNA intermediates.

[shmerl]

Patents on living beings in general are as ridiculous as patents on genes.