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U.S. Denies Patent on Part-Human Hybrid

Posted by Zonk on from the teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-and-other-strangeness dept.

jimkski wrote to mention a Boston Globe story involving the refusal of a patent claim on a genetically engineered creature. From the article: "A New York scientist's seven-year effort to win a patent on a laboratory-conceived creature that is part human and part animal ended in failure Friday, closing a historic and somewhat ghoulish chapter in U.S. intellectual property law."

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  1. He would have won.. by EvilCabbage · · Score: 5, Funny

    .. if he'd hired Disneys lawyers.

  2. Re:dare I say it? by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nah, this is more likely because of the republican administration and the likely implication of granting this patent.

    What? A bunch of human-monkey hybrids that will certainly vote Democrat?!

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  3. what...?? by to_kallon · · Score: 5, Funny

    creature that is part human and part animal
    wow, talk about prior art.....

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  4. Re:DAMN! by metlin · · Score: 5, Funny

    That way I could retire with relative ease.

    That's the *worst* pun I've ever heard. :-|

  5. Re:Wow - you had me at "US denies patent". by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Nice to see - my faith in the Patent system has raised slightly from 'completely hopeless' to 'mostly hopeless'"

    Funny, my opinion went from 'harmless' tp 'mostly harmless'.

  6. Re:Frightening by king-manic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do we have a right to play God?

    We're not playing god. We're playing "code monkey". The language just happens to be DNA and we're reverse engineering a set of programs doen by a vastly supurior coder... sorta like a VB programmer trying to understand and modify the vi source code.

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