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...White House insists that procedures are in place to deal with just this concern--in the form of so-called material transfer agreements, under which the NIH will negotiate with patent holders for access to their cell lines. "Obviously, in any area of medical or scientific research," says the Administration official, "there are companies that get out in front of the technology, and they get the patents...
BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY TREATY June 1992 The U.S. held out on a treaty calling for protection of threatened species and sharing of biotechnological advances, charging that the pact failed to offer patent protection to its bioengineering companies...
...food market. For now, the only antitrust authorities that really matter are in Brussels and Washington. But as other nations develop their economies, that may not always be the case. Activists in South Africa, for example, have forced American and European pharmaceutical companies to reverse their policies on the patent protection of drugs...
...Immediate Family, that brought Mann's work to the attention of a wide audience. Mann recorded a combination of spontaneous and carefully arranged moments of childhood repose and revealingly--sometimes unnervingly--imaginative play. What the outraged critics of her child nudes failed to grant was the patent devotion involved throughout the project and the delighted complicity of her son and daughters in so many of the solemn or playful events. No other collection of family photographs is remotely like it, in both its naked candor and the fervor of its maternal curiosity and care...
...Then again, that's probably what Sony thought when it was pushing Beta Max vs. VHS. The evolution of technology is Darwinistic, but unfortunately survival of the fittest often means survival of the wealthiest. Memo to TiVo: Time to seriously consider wielding that patent power. Let's do the Multimedia Timewarp again...