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The Fantastical Economics of the Gene Patenting Debate

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- At least since William Shockley's crackpot racial theories had their brief moment in the public discourse, it has been evident that merely achieving a Nobel Prize is not a guarantee of Solomonic wisdom, particularly outside the recipient's field of expertise. Or perhaps it is just a reflection of the human reality that the fickle finger of genius touches even the most brilliant of us serendipitously and cannot be counted as a birthright of any constancy -- strokes of genius perhaps being more like strokes of lightening than we would care to admit. This is particularly...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 19, 2010 (boomark / email).