Patents
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"No! You're telling me that the US government has been issuing
patents
on part of the human body?
And the
patents
weren't just to a particular gene that they isolated, but on every possible version of that gene.
So another lab tried to offer the test, but the company that held the
patents
threatened to sue the lab for patent infringement.
Gene
patents
clearly were a problem and were harming patients.
Well, the patent office had been issuing these
patents
for more than 20 years.
There were literally thousands of
patents
on human genes.
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.
So the bottom line: courts just weren't going to be willing to overturn these
patents.
We set out to identify a gene-patent holder that was vigorously enforcing its
patents
and then to organize a broad coalition of plaintiffs and experts that could tell the court about all the ways that these
patents
were harming patients and innovation.
Myriad held
patents
on two genes, the BRCA1 and the BRCA2 genes.
Myriad had used its
patents
to maintain a complete monopoly on BRCA testing in the United States.
We ended up with 20 highly committed plaintiffs: genetic counselors, geneticists who had received cease and desist letters, advocacy organizations, four major scientific organizations that collectively represented more than 150,000 scientists and medical professionals, and individual women who either couldn't afford Myriad's test, or who wanted to obtain a second opinion but could not, as a result of the
patents.
It ends a 25-year practice of allowing
patents
on human genes in the United States.
And the reason it should have been silicon is because the basic
patents
for semiconductors had already been made, had already been filed, and they were already building them.
And he explained, in a very generous way, the spirit that brought all these different people to the Institute for Advanced Study in the '40s to do this project, and make it freely available with no patents, no restrictions, no intellectual property disputes to the rest of the world.
I just realized it's important how one introduces new ideas to people, that's why these
patents
are sometimes necessary.
And he was working on gyroscopes; he has a number of
patents
for that kind of thing.
So Dad started racking up all of these
patents
and gaining a reputation as a blind genius, rocket scientist, inventor.
As oil prices go up, energy
patents
go up.
And while I don't have any
patents
that I'm aware of, you will be meeting a few of my inventions today.
All of our patents, our entire approach to
patents
and invention, is based on the idea that the inventor knows what the invention is for; we can say what it's for.
What we're seeing is a complete corruption of the idea of
patents
and copyright.
Meant to be a way to incentivize invention, meant to be a way to orchestrate the dissemination of knowledge, they are increasingly being used by large companies to create thickets of
patents
to prevent innovation taking place.
Last year, Apple filed some
patents
to get blood oxygenation, heart rate and body temperature via the Earbuds.
And those results helped our employer to sell the
patents
for real value.
Moreover, research output – as measured by publications and citations in international journals, as well as
patents
– is disproportionately low relative to population and financial capabilities.
This demand suggests that the US should subsidize the flow of technology to India and China from US firms holding patents, which is highly impractical.
Unfortunately, even environmental icons like Al Gore in the US are so heavily invested in new green technology that their self-interest is tied up in this fund being spent on developing privately owned new technologies that are protected by
patents.
With the International Stem Cell Corporation (ISCC) seeking
patents
in Europe for a technology that produces stem cell lines from the parthenogenetic activation of an unfertilized ovum, the time has come to answer that question.
(The ISCC does hold
patents
for its stem cells in the United States.)
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