I find it interesting that this is the same argument currently being used to suppress research on stem cells. The argument goes that, if the Feds give you any money to work on anything in your lab, even down to money used to buy ball point pens, you have to have a completely separate lab to do your stem cell work that is "clean" of any trace of Federal funding. Because labs are afraid intangibles such as power and water would count as this trace, they refuse to take part in stem cell research.
I wonder if a challenge to one could lead to a challenge to the other.
They will be able to tell if you are patenting the obvious.
Or be able to filch the idea, tell you it's obvious, and take the credit for themselves. The difference between the example of the NIDA grants and that of the patents is simply the money that's at stake. I get the impression that the members of the NIDA approval board don't get to pocket whatever they don't give away. Because millions of dollars are at stake, it simply takes more trust than is reasonable to make a similar process work for patents.
I agree completely about a Joss x JMS collaboration. Their strengths and weaknesses tend to complement each other. JMS has an amazing gift for story but his dialog tends to be clunky. Whedon, on the other hand, writes incredible dialog but his stories can be flaky (of course, who knows how "Firefly" might have turned out).
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One US dollar is about 45 Indian rupees or thereabouts. So, 40 million rupees would be less than a million dollars.
God bless Google:
"40000000 currency of india in USD"
40 000 000 Indian rupees = 859 869.257 U.S. dollars
> Anyhoo, if you have the chance, catch the 200th episode as a rerun. You'll be glad you did.
FYI: It's being rerun Friday, August 25, at 6:00 PM EDT.
I find it interesting that this is the same argument currently being used to suppress research on stem cells. The argument goes that, if the Feds give you any money to work on anything in your lab, even down to money used to buy ball point pens, you have to have a completely separate lab to do your stem cell work that is "clean" of any trace of Federal funding. Because labs are afraid intangibles such as power and water would count as this trace, they refuse to take part in stem cell research. I wonder if a challenge to one could lead to a challenge to the other.
They will be able to tell if you are patenting the obvious.
Or be able to filch the idea, tell you it's obvious, and take the credit for themselves. The difference between the example of the NIDA grants and that of the patents is simply the money that's at stake. I get the impression that the members of the NIDA approval board don't get to pocket whatever they don't give away. Because millions of dollars are at stake, it simply takes more trust than is reasonable to make a similar process work for patents.
I agree completely about a Joss x JMS collaboration. Their strengths and weaknesses tend to complement each other. JMS has an amazing gift for story but his dialog tends to be clunky. Whedon, on the other hand, writes incredible dialog but his stories can be flaky (of course, who knows how "Firefly" might have turned out).