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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 02:00 PM EST |
This had so better be struck down. Talk about stifling research on cancer of all
things. As if we need even more problems in cancer research.
So what are they going to do, sue everyone with cancer for patent infringement?
The genes are in people for crying out loud, they are natural. How the heck can
you patent them you greedy misfits? Want me to find someone with cancer so I can
submit their DNA as prior art? Boy the explanation I would have to give that
person.
As a scientist, this makes me sick that the patents have even been upheld this
far. As bad as software patents are (and they are horrible), this is worse, much
worse.
Hopefully the Supremes take this seriously and issue a strong decision stopping
all of this madness.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 03:53 PM EST |
Micheal Crighton did a great novel on this very subject titled "Next".
While it is fiction, and hilarious in places, it should scare you to death on
this subject. We all hope some sanity will come to prevail about patenting
something that obviously should be unpatentable.
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Authored by: hardmath on Tuesday, December 04 2012 @ 01:33 AM EST |
You think it's a bit jokey to paint a prospect of licensing costs for
procreation, but on the agricultural side of things that's exactly the game that
has been and is being played.
There was the case of the Enola "yellow" bean
patent which was granted to Larry Proctor for nothing more than selective
breeding applied to beans brought back from Mexico, then used to block the
further import of such beans.
More sophisticated is Monsanto's patent on introduction of Roundup-resistant commercial crops, so that
more of their weed-killer can be used throughout the growing season.
The
current US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments challenging Monsanto's patents in Bowman
vs. Monsanto.
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