More stem cell

[Dave Monroe]

For your consideration ...

http://www.shepherd-express.com/shepherd/19/22/headlines/cover_story.html

http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html

And I believe it was Farrah Fawcett who pioneered
copyrighting, or at least trademarking, not only one's
work, one's name, but one's face as well ...


--- FrodeauxB at aol.com wrote:
> 
> VECTORAL TIMES 17TH AUGUST 2001
> 
> P is for Property...
> McKenzie Wark
> 
> According to US Patent 6,200,806 the Wisconsin
> Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) owns both the
> method of isolating the cells and the cells >
themselves. The foundation has already granted
> rights to a biotech company called Geron
> Corporation, which provided funding for the
> research.
> 
> The patent is open to legal challenge, but if it
> holds up, researchers using stem cell lines that
> match the patent must do so under terms set
> by the patent's owners.

Of course, this is all big news up here, as hopes are
held out for Wisconsin, The University thereof, et
al., to become a bioengineering mecca ...

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