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The Effects of Intellectual Property Protection on Agricultural Research: Patents Are Not The Problem

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Perhaps the most beautiful sentence in scientific literature is this one:It has not escaped our notice that the specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material.James Watson & Francis Crick, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids; A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid," Nature 171: 737-38 (April 25, 1953)It is beautiful because of its elegance, its understatement, and because it provokes in the reader recognition that one of the fundamental mysteries of life on this planet has been answered, with the tantalizing promise that the first two human beings who...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 04, 2009 (boomark / email).