A bag of PepsiCo Inc. Frito-Lay brand Lays potato chips. (Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)
The controversy around PepsiCo suing farmers for infringement of its intellectual property rights in the FL2027 potato variety seems to have died as quickly as it was stirred up.Most of the reportage was about how a big multinational company was intimidating poor small farmers – a story that seemed to confirm all our fears from the 1990s when the TRIPS system was being negotiated. One only has to search the internet for ‘Dunkel Draft...