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Cancer Mouse Not Patentable in Canada
Proaxiom writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting the Supreme Court of Canada ruled today that OncoMouse, the so-called 'Harvard Mouse' that is especially prone to cancer, cannot be patented under Canadian law. The hapless rodent still enjoys patent protection in the U.S., Japan and much of Europe. So there is at least one place where higher life forms cannot be patented, but I am not familiar enough with the intricacies of international intellectual property treaties to figure out the consequences of the discrepancy. I'm sure countless IANAL's will be willing to offer opinions."
In Soviet Russia, Yakov Smirnoff patents COMEDY!
Could someone please make this stop? It once was funny. Once. Now it's similiar to the:
All your base stuff
Natalie Portman and some warmed southern breakfast cereal
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of anything
lists like the one I just made
corrections to lists like the one I just made.
Take it in good humor, Yakov. Heh
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No actually we dont like Canada because its so... Cold. And hey, maybe thats why you've got so many socialists... everyone is too busy freezing to notice that the Communists are taking over.
Ignore it... I'm from Florida, and I'm just tired of everyone pointing their fingers at us for being dumb. Remember, it was the left-wing seniors that voted wrong, not me.
"And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the World"
1 John 4:14
you have forgotten the link to a website with a goatse.
... whenever a text is transmitted, variation occurs. This is because human beings are careless, fallible, and occasiona
Great. So all the spammers will send all their email through China, while the Church of Scientology will just censor usenet speech through Canada. Either that or we'll have to partition usenet from Canadian hosts.
What's that? Not cancel moose? Oh. Nevermind.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
We can use our superior Cancer Mouse(TM) against their Mounties... We just need to teach them how to sing "Blame Canada" first.
Sorry. Had to go there.
Cruising the internet on my TI-99/4A @ a whopping 300 baud!
stupid moderators. If you're going to mod me down, do it right!
:)
Say it with me now:
Offtopic, yes
Funny, maybe
Overrated, sure
Redundant - it's the soviet russia jokes that are redundant and that was the WHOLE FUCKING POINT of my post! I don't see about fifteen posts bitching about the soviet russia jokes above mine, therefore I counter-moderate you as (-1, Functionally Illiterate Dunderhead)
*sniff* smell the Karma burning
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Mouse Patents You!
I thought it meant some nutcase was trying to patent a computer mouse which caused cancer.