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...take part directly in the commercial development of a discovery made by a Harvard researcher and for which the University holds the patent...
...between discovery and marketing for a pharmaceutical product is five to 20 years." In addition, the four tiny DNA pioneers will be competing soon with such multinational giants as Du Pont, Upjohn and General Electric. Although the U.S. Supreme Court decreed this summer that new life forms could be patented, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has yet to rule on any of the 100 or so recombinant-DNA patents already submitted...
...this moment, the gravest threat to the integrity of the University in its history is being posed. That threat comes, not from outside the institution, but from the central adiminstration, from the President himself. Two weeks ago the Crimson reported that the University was reviewing its "patent policy," and that Mr. Steiner, the University's Chief legal officer had "visited" a meeting of the Faculty Council in this connection, although the matter would not be considered formally until the next Council meeting. What the University is attempting, however, is not an innocuous readjustment of its patent policy, but a revolutionary...
Another fear voiced by sources in the University and on Capitol Hill is that upon returning on November 12 for the added session, the Senate will avoid addressing the patent legislation altogether by concentrating solely on appropriations before adjourning. The 97th session would then have to reintroduce the issue and begin the entire legislative process from scratch...
Whatever changes might result from possible Congressional action will not immediately wipe out Harvard's existing patent agreements with individual federal agencies, Coddington said. "We will continue to deal individually with the agencies, and we will renew our agreements as that becomes necessary, taking into account any new laws...