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...like the proverbial tortoise, to take the slow and careful route. Plotting out a 12-year game plan, the geneticists subdivided the work among nine different laboratories so that eventually the scientists could pool their results in one highly detailed chart. Along the way, they have been trying to patent their discoveries, even before knowing precisely what their importance...
...federally funded U.S. project, led by the National Institutes of Health, has mounted a campaign to patent each DNA fragment that its researchers can reproduce, even before its usefulness is determined. The policy has been heavily criticized within scientific circles and figured in the abrupt resignation last spring of Nobel-prizewinning geneticist James Watson as head of the Genome Project. Cohen speaks for many critics when he names the two big problems with the NIH approach: "The first is moral. You can't patent something that belongs to everyone. It's like trying to patent the stars. The second...
Five years after receiving the first-ever U.S. patent on a genetically engineered animal, Harvard received a patent on a second transgenic mouse designed to advance research on prostrate disease last week...
...patent for the original Harvard mouse,a rodent prone to breast cancer, promptedcongressional calls for a moratorium on animalpatents until the implications of patenting newlife forms had been considered more fully...
...government's issuance of three patents ongenetically altered rodents is significant becauseit indicates that the U.S. Patent and TrademarkOffice has settled its position on animalpatenting...