Patents give the patent holder the exclusive right to his invention covering the making, rising, exercising, selling or distribution of the patented article or substance. In the case of patents on life, this implies that a patent holder can prevent others from making or using patented seeds, plants and animals. Since living resources and life forms 'make' themselves, and farmers have always saved their seeds and retained their calves, seed saving and exchange is treated as 'intellectual property theft' in western-style patent laws.
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