--- On Wed, 5/20/09, Craig James <[email protected]> wrote:

> A molecule can be patented, and its drawing
> (the 2D coordinates) may be subject to copyright. 

this is legal grey area; case law allows the drawing itself since it is not 
creative; words about it are copyrighted whereas ideas aren't

> Anyone can "erase" copyrights by simply running the
> molecules through his/her favorite 2D depictor such as
> OpenBable's --gen2D option.  But the patents, if any,
> won't go away.

there is a time limit on patents and some gene patents are being disallowed



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