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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 06:01 AM EST |
Of course not! But if you do have children, then they would contain billions of
illegal copies of the gene. So they would be confiscated and become the property
of the company (presumably to become slave labour in the their sweatshop).[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 07:08 AM EST |
As long as you don't express anything negative about the patent holder you'd
*probably* be fine.
Raise a construably critical eyebrow, though, and you'll be on their radar
forever...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 08:06 AM EST |
I expect you to be in trouble long before you raise children - you must not let
anyone else acquire these precious new genes. You must carefully collect any
hair or nails you have cut, avoid crying or sweating in public, and don't even
think about using a bathroom...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 20 2013 @ 10:14 AM EST |
Soybeans are not the scary issue here. If this is allowed to occur the
implications for human being are the really scary issues.
How would Monsanto act in a life-and-death situation? Well here's how one
company acted. During the recent war in Iraq military vehicles were being blown
up by bombs hidden in the roads that were detonated as the vehicles went over
them. A company produced patented vehicle undercarriages that were immune to
this blowing up. The government needed more of these than the company could
produce and asked them to license the process to other companies. The company's
answer was no.
At some point some company will patent something very similar to what the parent
poster has suggested and if the soybean precedent is allowed here the Monsanto's
of the world will do some really icky things.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 12:09 AM EST |
There's a simple solution to that. You must consent to being neutered as part of
the process that alters your genes. By not allowing you to reproduce, the
company's precious IP is therefore protected. However, in the case that any
offspring slip through the cracks, they will be rounded up and destroyed once
discovered. It's not really murder, since they're 'unauthorized' copies of the
genes anyways.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: rcsteiner on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 02:18 PM EST |
How is allowing a patent for a sequence of genes, which I assume is little more
than a specific sequence of a finite set of amino acids, any different from a
patent on a sequence of letters? Or music notes?
If I create a piece of writing, a unique sequence of letters, which is capable
of being used for some task which is unique and innovative, can I patent that
letter sequence?
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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