[d@DCC] SARS and public domain patent..

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: CANadian OPENsource Education and Research <discuss (at) canopener.ca>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 13:33:25 -0400 (EDT)

  For those who haven't read this yet:

  SARS gene patent application will help cure research, says B.C. Cancer
  Agency http://weblog.flora.org/article.php3?story_id=405

  Free/Libre and Open Source medical research -- what a novel concept 
*sigh*


  I happen to believe that researchers should be given a choice between
government granted economic incentives in the form of public research
grants/funds, or the temporary monopolies in the form of patents.  
Organizations (including/especially educational institutions) should never
be able to receive both.


  This organization should also not need to go through the expense of 
filing a patent, but should be able to file "prior art" in a less 
expensive way that will accomplish the same purpose:  grant the moral 
rights to say "we discovered it first" without there existing an exclusive 
monopoly.

  The best case scenario is if adequate economic analysis happened around
different subject matter, and information process patents (such as software
and business model patents) and genetic patents were excluded from being
patentable.

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Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 09:19:35 -0300
From: Ricardo Andere de Mello
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Subject: [Patents] SARS and public domain patent.

Finally someone did what everybody should do, fill a patent request for 
public domain.
http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=cp_health_home&articleID=1323070

Here in Brazil university researchers are patenting a lot of things 
discovered with public money...

[]s, gandhi

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