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Authored by: rcsteiner on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 01:19 PM EDT |
Human fingers are not "naturally occuiring" by themselves in the wild,
either, but that doesn't mean I should be able to patent the human finger just
because I discovered a way to lop one off in a creative manner.
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 01:21 PM EDT |
So software transforms the machine into a new machine, making a patentable
entity and DNA can be transformed into a patentable entity by extracting it from
a cell.
How convenient it is that two things remain the same and yet are transformed so
as to become patentable.
I would love someone to explain to me how the DNA fragment meaningfully differs
in its extracted form from its integrated form so as to wonderfully and
magically warrant the bestowing of a patent.
Last time I checked you wanted the extracted DNA to be identical to the
integrated DNA, otherwise what good is it? This argument makes even less sense
than the software version of it.
So is this the new landrush? Grab as much of the Human Genome as you can while
there is still some left?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: nsomos on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 02:29 PM EDT |
I do not believe that big pharma is the least bit interested
in any actual cures. A one-time payment somehow just doesn't
warm the cockles of their cold and tiny investors hearts.
(Assuming they have hearts ...)
It seems that big pharma is more interested in finding
'treatments', which help, but never cure.
I would expect if big pharma ever DID actually find a real
cure for anything, that they would patent it in such a way
as to obscure what they found, to rob society of its
long-term benefit. This would be done so that should anyone
else come up with the same cure, they could be sued, so that
some investment might be recouped, one way or another. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Marc Mengel on Monday, April 15 2013 @ 02:32 PM EDT |
...to the Museum of Science and industry with my 8 year old
son, and we did the little experiment of extracting our own
DNA (some water, some dish soap, some isoproyl aclohol...)
we were in violation of 2 dozen patents on DNA in isolation
of the human body?!?
Someone should take the Supremes on a trip to whatever part
of the Smithsonian does this regularly and have them do the
experiment.
And are these folks sending take-down notices to places like
http://www.planet-
science.com/categories/experiments/biology/2012/03/extract-
your-own-dna.aspx
for explaining how to extract your DNA?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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