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 | | It's similar to copyright protection." USDA spokesman, Willard Phelps, describing Terminator technology to New Scientist (interviewed in New Scientist, 28 March 1998) |
 | | Without this, there is no way of protecting the technology [patented seed]." (Melvin J. Oliver, USDA molecular biologist and primary inventor of the technology, March, 1998, quoted in RAFI Communique, March 1998). |
 | | According to USDA spokesman, Willard Phelps, The [Terminator] technology is designed "to increase the value of proprietary seed owned by US seed companies and to open up new markets in Second and Third World countries." (Willard Phelps, USDA spokesman, described the newly patented technology to RAFI (now ETC), March 10, 1998). |
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