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...many undergraduates wore red ribbons to commemorate World AIDS Day Friday, a group of students joined about 100 protesters in a demonstration against a pharmaceutical company's patent on one of the most effective AIDS drugs on the market...
...this point, Zack decided it was time to pull out the big guns. He reached behind him and pulled out a piece of paper, from which he began to read: "Mr. Ahmann, is it not true that in 1981 you went to the U.S. Patent Office because you were worried about defects in the voting device you'd approved - and which had been installed and still operates down in Miami-Dade county...
Globalization's most optimistic boosters are fond of such sunny homilies as "no two countries that have McDonald's have ever fought a war." Nice advertising slogan, but it's patent nonsense...
...patent law approach is a one-size-fits-all approach. The question is, does it fit to the world of genetic research?" Breyer said...
...said that the crux of patent law is deciding whether a discovery "amounts to a protectable invention or useful device." In the case of genetic research, scientists sometimes apply when they have discovered "an existing aspect of nature" in which case a patent would not apply...