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The Unwanted Consequences of Banning Gene Patenting

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Academics are useful people -- they provoke us to think and rethink our assumptions and the consequences of our institutions and practices, and can expand them in unexpected and frequently useful ways. But they also tend to live in a world constructed within the boundaries of their own skulls, and rarely have the kind of practical experience that comes from building a business or making a product. That isn't intended to be a criticism (for the thin-skinned in the academic ranks), just an accurate description of different skill sets. However, the anti-gene patenting debate, mostly...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).