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If you look at their patent carefully, especially if you have any engineering background or talent, you may decide that you see one or two points where the design is not perfectly adequate.
They said, "Don't give it to any human," and they gave me a piece of paper which said it was a patent, and from that, we had to figure out a way to make this medicine.
A hundred chemists in the U.S. at the top universities all swore that little patent could never be turned into a medicine.
In my mind, she came from Lebanon, despite the patent fact that all her formative experience took place in suburban Accra.
Could you patent an environment?
Who can we sue?" (Laughter) Now Chris is a really brilliant lawyer, but he knew almost nothing about patent law and certainly nothing about genetics.
I knew something about genetics, but I wasn't even a lawyer, let alone a patent lawyer.
Gene patent proponents say, "See?
We didn't patent the gene in your body, we patented an isolated gene."
That means that you can't give your gene to your doctor and ask him or her to look at it, say, to see if it has any mutations, without permission of the patent holder.
It also means that the patent holder has the right to stop anyone from using that gene in research or clinical testing.
Allowing patent holders, often private companies, to lock up stretches of the human genome was harming patients.
The company that obtained a patent on two genes associated with this condition developed a test to diagnose the syndrome.
So another lab tried to offer the test, but the company that held the patents threatened to sue the lab for patent infringement.
Turns out that the Supreme Court has made clear through a long line of cases, that certain things are not patent eligible.
Well, the patent office had been issuing these patents for more than 20 years.
The patent bar was deeply entrenched in the status quo, the biotech industry had grown up around this practice, and legislation to ban gene patents had been introduced year after year in Congress, and had gone absolutely nowhere.
Now, patent cases tend to be: Company A sues Company B over some really narrow, obscure technical issue.
You might be able to patent the process for mining the gold, but you can't patent the gold itself.
It might've taken a lot of hard work and effort to dig the gold out of the mountain; you still can't patent it, it's still gold.
But now in direct opposition to its own patent office, the US government files a brief that states that is has reconsidered this issue in light of the district court's opinion, and has concluded that isolated DNA is not patent eligible.
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit hears all patent cases, and it has a reputation for being very, very pro-patent.
Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.
And so my house came down, I received my first patent against carpenter ants, termites and fire ants.
It's been called an Alexander Graham Bell patent.
Not to mention, there's a patent battle going on, so even if you do invent something, the Broad Institute and UC Berkeley are in this incredible patent battle.
There are no incentives in place once a drug is generic and off patent and no longer exclusive to encourage pharma companies to develop them, because they don't make money.
And using these funds, we plan to file a full patent on our process and to continue to work on our project.
Passed over even for a lab assistant position, he had to settle for a job at the Swiss patent office, obtained with the help of a friend's father.
Working six days a week as a patent clerk, Einstein still managed to make some time for physics, discussing the latest work with a few close friends, and publishing a couple of minor papers.
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