American Bar Association - 1 click patents

[Ray Dillinger]

On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Phillip H. Zakas wrote:

>- Biotechnology patents are especially troubling.  On the one hand one can
>patent a gene sequence discovered to be vaguely related to, say, breast
>cancer.  On the other hand that gene sequence is usually derived from some
>volunteer's dna, but that person has no rights to the resulting value of the
>patent!  Worse still, claims in biotech are very vague and broad simply
>because biotech is an emerging science.  I'd bet most of you haven't heard
>that proteomics seems to becoming more important than genomics over the last
>six months...does this mean a gene sequence, including all of the proteins
>it interacts with, are covered by the original patent even though proteomics
>was unknown even two years ago??

I wonder if it would be worth filing a 'blocking patent' on your own 
genome and all its applications, just to prevent some other bozo from 
patenting it. 

				Ray