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Patenting something found in nature
..I mean, this isn't something they
invented, it's a variety of trees found in nature...

Common sense would say it shouldn't be patentable but the genome project identifies and then patents our very genes.
What's that about?

Joe
Posted by: seosamh_z   Posted on: 05/04/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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If you can't get 'em one way  AbsolutelyNot | 05/04/04
Apr 1?  Martin Marvinski | 05/04/04
see ... ya gotta count your fingers after shaking Gates' hands  oldskool | 05/04/04
Mike, where are you?  DpuTiger | 05/04/04
Total BS  j.m.galvin | 05/04/04
does that mean m$ also has patent on the worm? -nt  stephen732@... | 05/04/04
Maybe its something pharmaceutical in nature  FilledOut | 05/04/04
Patenting something found in nature  tic swayback | 05/04/04
Yup - they can  ac2_z | 05/04/04
Obviousness  tic swayback | 05/04/04
So?  PA-ITGuy | 05/04/04
You would be sued  voska | 05/05/04
Some differences there  tic swayback | 05/05/04
Patenting something found in nature  seosamh_z | 05/04/04
It's not the genome is it?  voska | 05/04/04
Genome Project  tic swayback | 05/04/04
They patented mice  voska | 05/04/04
Patented Mice  tic swayback | 05/04/04
They weren't engineered  voska | 05/05/04
The Oncomouse  tic swayback | 05/05/04
yes it's pretty bad....  Monkey_MCSE | 05/04/04
sad  eLurker | 05/04/04
Oh boy another target for Worms  Squawkbox | 05/04/04
Too late for MS/Apple jokes?  toadlife | 05/04/04
Yours is the superior funny bone  Squawkbox | 05/04/04
LOL!  CobraA1 | 05/06/04
This is a future legal manipulation tactic  mlindl | 05/05/04
Ok, so now NATURE is patentable ?  BitTwiddler | 05/05/04
why not  eLurker | 05/05/04
My patent is even more significant.  Anton Philidor | 05/06/04
the last sentence:  ryusen | 05/05/04
Apple  broom | 06/23/04

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