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Another Academic with Solutions to Problems that Don't Exist

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Speaking of Oakland, Gertrude Stein famously said "There is no there, there." The quote comes to mind when reading much of the academic literature on patenting genes and diagnostic method claims, which continues to follow the pattern of "there could be a problem, there should be a problem, in the future there might be a problem, so the fact that there is no evidence that there is a problem is irrelevant to my theory about the best way to solve the problem." The latest example of this genre is by Geertui Van Overwalle (at right),...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 01, 2011 (boomark / email).