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Here’s the problem. Louie has spent the last 6 years developing a
“Purple-Longfinned Flyeater” . . . here after known as PLF . . . and he is now
ready to sell them to the public. Well, along comes Susie . . . I could make a song
out of that (I’m dating myself) . . . and she buys the first bunch of PLF’s that Louie
has for sale and she spent $25 each for them. Now, she does all of the right
things to induce the PLF’s to do their rightful thing and bingo there is a batch of
little PLF-lets at Susie’s house.
Susie naturally doesn’t want the enormous bunch of those little buggers
running around the place so she goes to the local PLF selling place and offers up
her good fortune to the person (see ladies . . . I could have said man!) in charge
and we now have a dilemma. Does she have a right to sell the highly prized
PLF’s as “Louie’s PLFs” . . . or are they now “Susie’s New & Improved PLFs” . . .
or what? Does a person have the exclusive right to a color variety of animal???
Now remember Louie spent 12 years and Susie was lucky and only spent 6-7
months. What if the fish that Louie sold to Susie were inferior products of Louie’s
breeding stock?
If Susie knew that, then when she goes to sell her PLF’s, then she should
not say that they are Louie’s PLF’s, since she will be selling inferior stock and
damaging Louie’s name and reputation.
Is that OK? Does she owe any alliance to Louie? Is she under any ethical
code to maintain the strain and sell the strain as Louie would do for his?
Since Susie’s PLFs are just not the same high quality that Louie had and
Susie knew that when she bought the PLFs but now that she wants to make
some money, her PLFs are really inferior PLFs to Louie’s PLFs. Now it is clear
that she really is misrepresenting “Louie’s PLFs” . . . oh my! Now, what if Susie
mates a real PLF with a YSF . . . that’s a “Yellow Short-finned Flyeater” . . . what
does she have now? I know . . . a “PYLSF”, well when these are young they do
show the purple that Louie’s PLFs have but that eventually fades and yellow

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