Kokopelli

[PatrickW]

Hi Tom,

I don't know if you've heard the latest about Kokopelli. I noticed your trip was mentioned in the midst of everything.

I did a short post about it on my blog:

www.patnsteph.net/weblog/

And this is the computer translated version of Kokopelli's blog:

tinyurl.com/ycqgyzk

On the HG board, we've been discussing it and comparing it with open source software...

alanbishop.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=banter&action=display&thread=3891

[Tom Wagner]

Note: I am cross posting over at Homegrown Goodness also. My little forum may have a couple of folks checking in every days and get maybe 75 guests per day but this topic may change that.

Thanks, Patrick for bringing this issue forth. I have no doubt that the atorney that I spent so much time with in France will have a fighting chance to bat this down. I am so glad that my name was mentioned in this conflict as well.
I will support Kokopelli Seeds of France to my utmost. All the way through Europe I supported the freedom to exchange seed without any restriction of any kind, and that varieties start with the individual first, not last.



Your quotes Patrick..

Kokopelli Seeds of France, who last year was fined more than €17.000 for selling ‘illegal’ seeds, is involved in a new legal conflict. Baumaux, the same company that instigated the previous legal action against Kokopelli Seeds has now registered the ownership of the name Kokopelli and is selling a new variety of tomato with it.
Baumaux is not stopping there however, they are also demanding Kokopelli Seed cease and desist in their use of the name Kokopelli and all business activities associated with it. They are also demanding a payment of €100.000 in compensation for use of the name to date.
The original French language story is here, and a Google translated version here

Sorry for my quote in English and French. I did highlight my name a couple of times to make sure I can read the links correctly. I am behind Kokopelli 100%.


Quote of quote.....

Despite our small ways (for we are not watered by the billions of euros for research on transgenic F1 hybrids or more efficient poisons), Kokopelli has this year launched the first campaign of development work breeder Tom Wagner's great.

Kokopelli, à ses frais, a organisé le voyage de Tom Wagner en Europe qui lui a permis d'animer des formations (obtention de tomates-pomme de terre) en France, en Suisse, en Belgique, en Autriche, en Irlande, au Danemark et en Angleterre. Kokopelli, at its expense, the trip was organized by Tom Wagner in Europe that allowed him to lead training (obtaining tomato-potato) in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Denmark and England.

Et pour en revenir au piratage, Tom Wagner se plaint amèrement du fait que la société Baumaux commercialise toute une gamme de ses propres créations de tomates sans même lui faire honneur d'un remerciement ou de le nommer: par exemple, Green Zebra, Green Grape, Striped Stuffer, Red Zebra, Banana Legs… And to return to piracy, Tom Wagner complained bitterly that the company Baumal markets a line of its own creations of tomatoes without honor him a thank you or to appoint: for example, Green Zebra, Green Grape , Striped Stuffer, Red Zebra, Banana Legs ...

Il met également en valeur sur son blog que sur la liste des prétendues variétés « amateurs », du catalogue prétendument « amateur » du GNIS, (et dont certaines, cependant, sont commercialisées en tout « professionnalisme » par les grandes centrales de supermarchés, Carrefour, Auchan, Monoprix), il existe 84 variétés « amateurs » de tomates dont 12 % sont les siennes pour sûr et sans doute même 17 % (si l'on prend en compte les synonymes ou variétés filles). It also highlights on his blog that the list of varieties called "amateurs", catalog supposedly "amateur" GNIS (some of which, however, are marketed in any "professional" by the major central supermarket, Carrefour , Auchan, Monoprix), there are 84 varieties "fans" of tomatoes which 12% were his for sure and probably even 17% (if one takes into account synonyms or varieties girls).

La société Baumaux, les autres catalogues de semences conventionnelles, les centrales de supermarchés, et le GNIS, ont-ils proposé à Tom Wagner de participer au financement de ses travaux d'obtention végétale grâce auxquels ils font des choux gras? The company Baumal, other seed catalogs conventional power of supermarkets, and the GNIS, they proposed to Tom Wagner to help finance its work through plant variety to which they are fat cabbage?

Les pirates de la biodiversité, où sont-ils donc? Pirates of biodiversity, where are they?

I do not know anything about any proposal to me about finances from Baumal and others. I will always be the law breaker.

Tom Wagner