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24 July 2014
US Court Rules Again That Natural Phenomena Cannot Be Patented, Casting Further Doubt On Gene Patents
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Back in June, Mike wrote about the important Myriad Genetics judgment from the Supreme Court, which said that naturally-occuring genetic...
19 September 2013
How Long Before A Patent Kills A Hundred Million People?
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Recent news that Angelina Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy because of her elevated risk of developing breast cancer has dra...
10 February 2013
The Main Problem With Patented GM Food Is The Patent, Not The Fact That It's GM
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The acrimonious debate and serious lobbying that developed around California's Proposition 37 , which would have required the labelli...
15 July 2012
James Watson, Co-Discoverer Of DNA's Structure, Says 'Patenting Human Genes Was Lunacy'
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Techdirt has been covering the important Myriad Genetics case for a while. Although the CAFC decided that isolated genes could be patent...
06 April 2011
How Gene Patents Cause Suffering
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Here's a textbook case of how gene patents not only do *not* promote innovation, as is so frequently claimed, but slow it down - and wi...
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25 March 2011
Enclosing the Ocean Commons
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The oceans belong to everyone - well, more or less. That is, they form a classic commons. But of course, that fact doesn't stop people...
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17 March 2010
Speaking of Monsanto and Gene Patents...
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And right on cue , like the catastrophe of the old comedy, comes some fresh news about Monsanto and its gene patents: Monsanto Co., facing ...
Where Do I Stand on GMOs?
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I'm conscious that I've written a lot of negative posts about genetically-modified organisms on this blog. That might lead readers t...
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21 October 2009
No Patents on Seeds...or We're Really Stuffed
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Good to see that I'm not a lone voice crying in the wilderness: The continuing patenting of seeds, conventional plant varieties and ani...
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21 May 2009
Intellectual Monopolies Kill: Two Examples
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One of the reasons I object to the term "intellectual property" is that its cuddly familiarity makes it hard for people to underst...
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14 May 2009
The Common Thread: Open Data, Open Access
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Sir John Sulston is one of this country's - and the world's - heroes. Already a one-time Nobel prize winner for his work on worms (...
22 August 2008
How Sick Are Patents? Ask Indonesia
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Some time back I noted that one of the crazier consequences of an obsession with intellectual monopolies was that vital health information -...
07 July 2008
A New Institute for Science, Ethics and Innovation
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One of the most remarkable men around today is Sir John Sulston. He's already won a Nobel Prize for his work on nematode worms/apoptos...
06 October 2007
The Genome Goes Read-Write
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Good Craig: Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic ch...
10 June 2007
The Bad Boy of Genomics Strikes Again
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When I was writing Digital Code of Life , I sought to be scrupulously fair to Craig Venter, who was often demonised for his commercial appro...
27 February 2007
Softly, Softly on Software Patents
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This response to an e-petition "to make software patents clearly unenforcible" is interesting: The Government remains committed t...
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