Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...Take up a sport that is not associated with a country club. Anything that can be played in the backyard goes down well. The Kennedys still own the patent on touch football, and Bush expropriated horseshoes. Badminton or volleyball might do nicely. And keep running, as long as you look funny in the shorts. Beware of Lycra. Caveat jogger: pin to your locker a picture of the ashen-faced Jimmy Carter collapsing near Camp David to remind yourself that you have moved to the tropics and that running in the heat should be kept at a stately pace...
WHETHER YOU THINK GENES were invented by God or by Nature, it seems the height of arrogance -- and absurdity -- to seek patents on the DNA that lies within human cells. Yet absurdity was not the reason the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office gave for turning down the National Institutes of Health in its bid to do just that. Instead, it was that the genes failed to meet the standards of novelty, usefulness and nonobviousness required if an invention is to be protected. Among other things, said the patent office, the descriptions of the genes had been published before, so they...