10 Mar
2001
10 Mar
'01
11:40 a.m.
At 12:27 PM 2/24/01 +0100, Predrag wrote:
well, they could well be
Actually there was an IP battle fought over mice. See, some mice cost $150 a pop, and at the same time, mice are easy to copy. And the community of mouse-users (aka biologists) likes to share. In the end, the NIH (the largest buyer of these specialty mice) used its leverage to allow biologists to share without legal hassles while also protecting the interests of the mouse manufacturers who were asserting their IP. .......