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Genome Project
---the genome project identifies and then patents our very
genes---

Not correct. The Genome Project was the publicly funded effort
to sequence the genome. No sequences were patented, and in
fact, Nobel Laureate Jim Watson quit the project (he was in
charge of it) when the NIH attempted to start patenting things.

It is possible to get a patent on a gene sequence, but so far,
none have been tested in court, so it's unclear if they'll hold up.
To get a patent, you have to show some sort of usefulness, and
a sequence where you don't know what it does, or have any sort
of means of exploiting the protein it codes for, that doesn't
fulfill that requirement.

More on this subject can be found here:
http://www.dnai.org/
http://www.dnalc.org
Posted by: tic swayback   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
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