Life Patents
The New York Times posted an article about the growing reaction to the so-called "life patents" - patented pieces of genetic code for diseases or genetically modified foods, etc. Stephen Hilgartner, a professor at Cornell, has recently released a paper trying to identify "acceptable intellectual property" in the face of life and death situations. As I've covered before, 20% of your genetic code is already patented meaning that royalties are often paid for disease tests or treatments.
Medical research is a tremendously expensive and important undertaking, but if money is coming between saving lives, there is no place for intellectual property here. Research labs need to find other revenue streams - like grants and donations.
[Via Against Monopoly]
3 comments:
Absolutely in agreement with you on this, Kevin. It's a bit like patenting God, if you believe in God. Are we going to start paying patients if they have some life-saving, disease resistent combination of DNA? Makes me wonder what exactly we own. I'm naturally thin. Can I patent those genes that make me so?
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