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...million videocassette recorders sold in the U.S. last year, not one was built by an American manufacturer. Now a small Arizona company, Go-Video, has launched a battle to change that. Go-Video's design for a dual-deck VCR, which won U.S. patent approval last month, contains two recorders side by side. It would enable users to copy tapes, edit them or tape one program while watching another on cassette...
...university's professional schools and research institutions have produced a dazzling string of scientific and technological breakthroughs. Stanford developed the world's first X-ray microscope. The Stanford Medical Center was the site of the nation's first adult heart transplant. Stanford research produced the basic patent on gene splicing and scores of other inventions that will net the university some $6 million in royalties this year...
...group of more than 20 congressmen hopes to place a moratorium on the approval of any more animal patents until the ethics of the situation can come under closer scrutiny. The legislation would also revoke the Harvard patent until a decision were reached...
...support the congressional move to open debate. As the congressmen stated in a letter to the patent office, "The Patent Office has been given no clear and certain signal from Congress that the unrestricted patenting of animals is acceptable public policy." At the genesis of such important and far-reaching technological developments, we should all be given a say in policy before a government agency--quietly, without discussion--decides...
Revoking the patent for the mouse would cause severe harm to medical science. An important financial incentive that drives biotechnology research in academia and industry would be removed. The money that goes to the doctor and to Harvard is not expected to amount to all that much--but it does repay the researcher for his time and effort and the University for its facilities. And this is money that would be plowed back into research work and laboratory facilities in the cause of medical science...