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Everybody Knows -- The Boston Globe Weighs in on Gene Patenting

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow. Men in Black (1997) And in 2010, everybody knows that gene patenting is a bad idea, at least if you define "everybody" as the editorial boards of major metropolitan newspapers (and, of course the ACLU). Today, The Boston Globe took that brave stand in an editorial that proved they know much less than...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 02, 2010 (boomark / email).