Word: lederal
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...Leder was at the center of a national controversy this spring after Harvard received the exclusive marketing rights for the genetically-altered strain of mice he created to do cancer research. It was the world's first animal patent...
...common practice is that research use in a non-commercial sense is never challenged," said Joyce Brinton, director of Harvard's Office for Patents, Copyrights and Licensing. Brinton said that Leder had already been offering his product to researchers at a rate well below the breeding costs of the mice...
...concerned that the moratorium woulddelay the development and implementation ofgenetically-altered animals and thereby create anenvironment of secrecy [inimical to research],"Leder said in an interview yesterday. "It wouldalso serve as an incentive to drive thedevelopment of biotechnology overseas...
...Leder said he had not heard of the Kastenmeierbill and thus could not comment on the specificprovisions of it, but stressed that he has soughtall along to share his work with his fellowresearchers...
...Information regarding this has [already] beenwidely published," Leder said...