On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Jonathan Mendelson wrote:
> This isn't quite culture related, but... > > I saw somewhere that there are trademarks of 20% of our genes at the USPTO. > > My instinct is that this seems wrong, given that it's a patent of a > discovery of something that occurs in nature, and that it could potentially > harm the quality or price of various types of medical care or drugs. At the > same time, it seems possible that banning genetic patents could cause > pharmaceutical companies to decrease their investments in research. > > Does anyone here have thoughts on this? Does anyone know more about the > economics? I did some Googling and I found a lot of conflicting info. > > Best, > Jonathan Patenting a sequence found in my body, perhaps found in billions of people's bodies, is insane. oo--JS. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss
