Quote Originally Posted by jsmorphs2 View Post
The Horticulture industry puts trademarks and royalties on genetics. If So&So grower produces a new cultivar of Hemerocallis and they trademark it, those genetics are owned and it is illegal to propagate and SELL that specific plant. To do so would require licensing and a royalty would be charged on each plant sold.
Quote Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
I sincerely hope this never happens to the herp world.
You have to understand that you are talking something totally different here. Trademarks on plants are done on an exact genetic profile, and they are asexually reproduced so that the "offspring" are clones of the parent. Otherwise they would not still be the trademarked variety. It is perfectly acceptable to cross 2 trademarked varieties and come up with your own new variety, you just aren't allowed to asexually reproduce the trademarked variety.

I actually thought it was only done with plants that do not normally reproduce asexually, such as roses, so daylillies would not be trademarked, but I could easily be wrong on that.

In any event, it won't be happening with herps until we learn how to clone them.