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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 02:17 PM EDT |
Because it all boils down to:
Patenting a human body part
No matter
how small a slice, the human body should never be patentable subject
matter.
First: it was created by nature and we are all almost 100%
identical. At the larger scope, we have hair - even if it doesn't show. At the
smaller scope, how much of the human dna is different in the biggest difference
when comparing two homans?
And even if a single human had one thing that
was different:
Second: to allow a patent on part of our body - no matter how
small - is to allow physical slavery to exist - it may not be full, ultimate
enslavement, but it is slavey none-the-less because it allows one human to "own"
another human (no matter how small a part)
At point does the human body
suddenly be labled "not human"?
Limb? Finger? Skin?
Cell?
Mitochondria? DNA? DNA slice?
It's all still part of the
physical human body. All of the arguments made that should "allow a dna slice
to be patent eligible subject matter" applies to "allow blood plasma that is
separated from whole blood as patentable subject matter".
As for the
discussion surrounding the bacterium - to steal a line from Young
Frankenstein:
Humans, with very few exceptions, are not
bacterium
RAS
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
Translation: We've got lots of big words to hide the fact that this is a bit of
nature, and that we haven't invented anything, but big words are expensive so we
should be able to lock up nature and charge people to see our big words. And
besides, just look at those flowcharts! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Wednesday, May 01 2013 @ 10:56 PM EDT |
And I was right! Score!!!
To me, this is just another land-grab of "majestic"
proportions, to use Jimi Hendrix' term. Meaning that I can't
make any more sense out if it than I could Jimi's lyrics in
"Third Stone from the Sun".
I notice that not once does the article examine the effects
on the public, which has granted temporary patents to
promote its own interests.
As someone else noted - human is human, and nature is
nature. There ain't no way around it.
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