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But because the process for making it was patented, no other company could produce it, hence the patent holder had exclusive rights to the name of a unique product.
A piece inside the WP (about an article coming out today in the scientific journal Nature ) reports that a New York scientist, Stuart Newman, has applied for a patent for a way of mixing human embryo cells with those from a monkey, ape or other animal.
Currently, explains the Post , patents are not allowed on human beings (based on the 13th Amendment's proscription of slavery), but the issue of hybrids is unsettled, because patent law has not addressed "how human" an animal would have to be before it fell under the ban.
In any case, grants and patent incentives were never designed with tropical diseases in mind.
Elvis knows this is an obsession of mine; in Sunday's Chicago Sun-Times I published a long article that questions widespread beliefs about the Texas Instruments digital projection system and extols a much cheaper film projection system called MaxiVision48, which uses existing, proven technology, and produces a picture its patent holders claim is 500 percent better (not a misprint) than existing film or digital projection, take your choice.