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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. Wow - you had me at "US denies patent". by MrRTFM · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Even better, he bascially applied for it, hoping to set a precendent to stop others patenting living creatures.

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

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