Support All India Kisan Sabha in their campaign to defend farmers from Patent Infringement Claims by PepsiCo

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Background Reading:
http://kisansabha.org/aiks/press-releases/pepsico/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-pepsi-farmers/pepsico-sues-four-indian-farmers-for-using-its-patented-lays-potatoes-idUSKCN1S21EL

Why India Pirates?
This issue speaks directly to one of the basic principles of our constitution, namely "reform of copyright and patent law"

vik@hamara Mon 29 Apr 2019 9:43AM

Please state your views on this. I'll start a poll if people are engaged with the proposal.

Pirate Praveen Mon 29 Apr 2019 4:16PM

I think we should have clarity on the legal status first and decide response accordingly. If food can be patented legally, then our focus should be to get it repealed. Boycotting Pepsi will not solve the root cause.

piratekp Mon 29 Apr 2019 4:50PM

AFAIK the act says you cannot sell patented seeds, but the question here is setting precedent. This is the first case of its kind and if farmers have to go to court to settle this it will be a set a bad precedent where a multi billion dollar company goes around bullying poor farmers.

piratekp Mon 29 Apr 2019 5:00PM

a farmer shall be deemed to be entitled to save, use, sow, resow,
exchange, share or sell his farm produce including seed of a variety
protected under this Act in the same manner as he was entitled before the
coming into force of this Act:
Provided that the farmer shall not be entitled to sell branded seed of a variety protected
under this Act.
Explanation.—For the purposes of clause (iv), “branded seed” means any seed put in a
package or any other container and labelled in a manner indicating that such seed is of a
variety protected under this Act

https://www.wipo.int/edocs/lexdocs/laws/en/in/in012en.pdf