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U.S. Denies Patent on Part-Human Hybrid
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."
Good indeed. Back to the lab Igor... we may begin our work again....
Nice to see - my faith in the Patent system has raised slightly from 'completely hopeless' to 'mostly hopeless'
right - it is nice to see the USPTO as a stooge for someone else pushing their agenda on us, isn't it?
it is exactly this type of abuse of the patent system that has stifled American ingenuity and allowed for the theft of intellectual property to become an accepted facet of doing business.
You're such an arrogant git. The fact that we HAVE conquered the planet makes us lacking in a certain attribute that a lot of other animals embrace: regard for each other.
How is it intelligent to go make holocausts, bomb the fuck out of iraqis and take part in ethinic cleansing. How the heck is it 'intelligent' to wipe out environments belonging to every other animal except our own.
Idiot.