Patent Law

Cull

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

"It is in the sterilisation of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies." - H.G. Wells. Antithetical to rampant free-to-breed populist sentiment, government support for eugenics has no prospect. Fortunately, grasping short-sightedness offers hope. Wells proactive stance is more easily achieved by impeding medical advances. To cull the defective in the population as young as possible, there may be no more effective measure than making genetic research uneconomic, to zero the return on investment for developing novel treatments. Not a moment too soon to take the side road to Wells' goal for a better human species. Outlaw gene patents.

Kevin Noonan at Patent Docs on gene patenting.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on June 16, 2009 (boomark / email).