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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.
Third, the absence of patents would continue to keep prices low once drugs reached the market.
These eight "anti-environment" Senate votes were: a vote against de-funding the Synfuels Corp.; a vote in favor of constructing a highway along the boundary of a wilderness park in Hawaii; a vote against creating a new victim's compensation program under the Superfund program; a vote to cut funding for the Environmental Protection Agency; two highway bill votes; a vote against banning new billboard construction along federally subsidized highways; and a vote against a moratorium on issuing federal patents for hard-rock mining on public lands out west.
Society should recognize that funding university research through patents is folly, and should fund it directly, as in the past.
But many of the best researchers also have jobs that require them to work for industry, where the protection of innovation via trade secrets and patents is the norm, and for equally good reason: Business cannot turn a profit if all its improvements are instantly appropriable by others.