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To: Grainne who wrote (102076)	4/26/2005 5:31:41 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

<<The contracts between Iraq and the United States exactly forbid Iraqi farmers from planting their own seeds that they saved.>> Then there is this from your site. <<This order amends Iraq's original patent law of 1970 and unless and until it is revised or repealed by a new Iraqi government, it now has the status and force of a binding law.>> The new Iraqi government can say screw the US patent and plant what they please. Even if they don't who will walk around in Iraq testing the genes in crops. Sounds like a good way to get killed.

To: Grainne who wrote (102076)	4/26/2005 8:25:11 PM
From: Kid Rock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Looks like your "article" had to be corrected CLARIFICATION - February 2005 The report jointly issued by Focus on the Global South and GRAIN in October 2004 on Iraq's new patent law has received a lot of attention worldwide. It has also generated a misunderstanding that we wish to clarify. The law does not prohibit Iraqi farmers from using or saving "traditional" seeds. It prohibits them from reusing seeds of "new" plant varieties registered under the law - in practical terms, this means they cannot save those seeds for re-use. The report has been revised to express this more clearly.