Patent enforcement
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Costa Rica's Industrial Property Registry controls the patent enforcement on its tourism industry, and there are legal disputes in this matter, in particular with Darren Hreniuk, whom it had granted a 20-year patent in this field. The U.S. leads by example in novel forms of patenting, but there is secret admiration for the methods employed by Hreniuk and the Costa Rican authorities in enforcing intellectual property rights.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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Owning
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A landmark decision was made by the US Supreme Court of patenting on both DNA and even whole organisms and nearly twenty four thousand genes in the human genome and almost fifty percent known cancer genes were patented. The ethical issues about patenting life is ignored in enacting legal decision and policy and would grow more acute in new era of personalized medicine and of genomics and proteomics research.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2006
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Working the system II: Corporate greed no longer remains the sole domain of the corporation
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A suit was filed against Columbia University by Biotech Corporation for trying to prolong university patent estates for an additional 17 years. The patent fight illustrates that a university is capable to do anything in its power to maintain a grip on its blockbuster,
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 2004
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