Word: quigg
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What is disturbing is that at a critical point in scientific development, when the questions surrounding a new technology should have been discussed, the matter received no public debate. The patent for the mouse was strangely kept quiet until a decision was announced. Donald J. Quigg, the Commissioner of Patents, remarked in response to protests: "How can anybody say that this kind of development is unethical or wrong...
However, in a letter sent to Congress on Monday, U.S. Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks Donald J. Quigg defended his office's decision to grant the mouse patent and denounced Congressional interference in the matter...
...Genetic manipulation of animals to develop new and improved breeds is being pursued in the United States, Japan and elsewhere and will continue to be pursued irrespective of whether patents are granted," Quigg writes in the letter...
...this activity [of granting patents for animals] is to be regulated, it should be done through the normal regulatory process and not through placing a moratorium on issuing patents on a particular type of invention," the letter states. Quigg said that such regulation should be carried out by agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, or the National Institutes of Health, rather than by Congress...
...mere imitators, many American firms have steadily grown less innovative. Some U.S. executives pay so much attention to short-term, bottom-line results that they hesitate to make costly investments in new products that will only pay off in the long run. Says Patents and Trademarks Commissioner Donald Quigg: "Stockholders demand more and more immediate results, but research and development does not occur overnight." Rather than develop new product lines, many firms buy them by taking over other companies...