Indeed, some people who have already been granted patents, but whose plants have lost favor with consumers while the patent is still in force, hastily abandon their rights and let the variety become public property.
也有已取得專利者，在保護期未屆滿但植物已「失寵」賣不動時，就忙不迭地「拋棄」專利，讓它變成公共財。