Patent Applications in Biotech

From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@uniserve.com)
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 07:03:46 MDT


Wednesday's Boston Globe reported an interesting article on the amount of
patent applications currently pending approval in biotech. This raises
some very interesting questions about the viability of genetic ownership
and the ethics of having patents on genetic material...something covered
partly at Extro-4. Get the story at:
 
http://www.transhuman.memetree.com/article.pl?sid=00/08/31/134232

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