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...landmark decision that opens the door for genetically engineered organisms to be patented in Canada, an Ottawa court ruled last week that Harvard is eligible for a patent on a trailblazing class of genetically altered mice...
...Oncomice," which have genes that make them prone to cancer, won the first ever American patent for an animal in 1988, but the University has been fighting for fifteen years to gain similar protection in Canada...
...press release announcing the suit, notHarvard claims that it has taken appropriate measures to register both the domain name and the trademark. However, notHarvard.com's application to trademark its domain name was denied by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) because it could be too easily confused with Harvard University...
...field trial of two transgenic lines--UH SunUP and UH Rainbow--and by 1996, the verdict had been rendered. As everyone could see, the nontransgenic plants in the field trial were a stunted mess, and the transgenic plants were healthy. In 1998, after negotiations with four patent holders, the papaya growers switched en masse to the transgenic seeds and reclaimed their orchards. "Consumer acceptance has been great," reports Rusty Perry, who runs a papaya farm near Puna. "We've found that customers are more concerned with how the fruits look and taste than with whether they are transgenic...
Even at my job, the same immorality and materialism appear again and again. I read about biotechnology industry and the importance of maintaining the right to patent. "Were there no patents, who would really bother to do scientific research anyway?" asks the lobbyists. Money determines what we study, what we produce and to whom we listen...