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Posted on 08/22/2014 8:57:35 AM PDT by Covenantor
Kenyan businessman claims US 'owns' Ebola
Cape Town – A Kenyan businessman has reportedly made claims that the United States government owns the Ebola virus that continues to rock West African countries.
According to the Business Daily, Joseph Aura told the High Court in Nairobi that the US had patented the Ebola virus, its vaccine and cure in 2012 and should be compelled to bring the health crisis to a stop.
The claim was made in court papers supporting Aura’s request to have the Kenya High Court throw out a case filed by the Consumers Federation of Kenya lobby group seeking to compel national carrier Kenya Airways to stop flying to West African nations hit by the Ebola epidemic, the report said.
Aura made the claims as Nigeria, one of the affected West African countries, declined to use an experimental drug from the US.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised the total death toll to 1 350, and said deaths were mounting fastest in Liberia, which now accounts for at least 576, according to AP.
The disease is spread through contact with body fluids of those infected – dead or alive. The highly-contagious virus can kill up to 90% of its victims, according to reports.
WHO has maintained there is no licensed cure for the deadly viral disease.
According to Africa Review, the Ebola outbreak has left the world with a global health crisis that has paralysed businesses worth billions of shillings worldwide.
One of those rumors that has a basis in truth.
We DO own a patent on the sequence of one of the strains of ebola. Simply because we were the first to sequence it and IIRC publish that.
And owning the patent in this case means that anyone wanting to do research with that particular strain has to either get permission, pay a fee, or both.
We don’t “own” the Ebola virus. We “own” the Obama virus that is currently killing freedom.
An Ebola ‘Truther’...........................
Who is this "we"?
And what is the patent number of this purported patent?
The Kenyan businessman has made "claims that the United States government owns the Ebola virus".
But "Kenyans" pulling absurd claims out of their rear ends is a phenomenon that has become all too commonplace ever since Obama was first elected.
‘We’ being the NIH IIRC.
It’s common to patent a sequence of something if you’re the first to do so.
https://www.google.com/patents/CA2741523A1?cl=en
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I wonder who owns: Ebola.com?
The term ‘shake-down’ comes to mind
Who owns Ebola?
Why, it’s that world famous Nobel winning Kenyan, Barack Obama! He believes that he is the U.S. Government and the rest of the ignorant Kenyans believe he is the U.S. Government so...HE OWNS IT.
Yeah, cause everyone knows Nigeria has lots of stuff that works better than anything from the US. Proof you just can't fix stupid.
WRONG! Ignoring for a moment that a US patent is only valid in the US - so anyone outside of the US can use whatever is patented, unless that territory is also covered by a national or regional patent - US patent law contains an express exemption for research purposes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_exemption
A patent grants protection for use IN COMMERCE and not beyond that.
Of course it’s not valid out of the US unless that particular country abides by our patent system.
The point being it’s entirely common to ‘patent’ a sequence here if you’re the first one to do so.
And the strain patented in this case has nowhere near the mortality or morbidity of Zebola.
If this were weaponized ebola I hardly think they’d bother to file a patent on that with anyone.
And I’m unaware of any exemption for research purposes. Unless something has changed in the past 6 or 8 years. There were several sequences patented early on in the human genome project that were excellent targets for cancer research in particular. And the patent holder on that (Venter’s company) wasn’t budging on their prices to study with those.
No one outside of the US has any need to "abide" to the US patent system. Almost all countries have their own patent system, and they are very similar in nature and content (look up "Paris Convention" and the "PCT" system). You seem to not understand that patents are territorial in nature. A US patent covers only the US, a British patent covers only Britain, etc.
The point being it’s entirely common to ‘patent’ a sequence here if you’re the first one to do so.
Your point is totally besides the point of this discussion.
And I’m unaware of any exemption for research purposes. Unless something has changed in the past 6 or 8 years. There were several sequences patented early on in the human genome project that were excellent targets for cancer research in particular. And the patent holder on that (Venter’s company) wasn’t budging on their prices to study with those.
Yes, I'm aware that you are unaware of patent law. But I did provide a direct link to that specific provision (by way of wikipedia). How about reading it before replying?
The link that you have provided goes to a patent application, not a patent.
As far as I can determine, that application has not been approved, and no patent has issued.
Among the applicants is listed: The Government Of The United States Of America As Represented By The Sec Retary, Department Of Health & Human Services, Center For Disease Contro (sic)
” You seem to not understand that patents are territorial in nature. A US patent covers only the US, a British patent covers only Britain, etc.”
Which specifically is answered in my reply here:
“Of course it’s not valid out of the US unless that particular country abides by our patent system.”
Does your reading comprehension suffer?
The ‘point’ of this discussion is the tinfoil variety currently being distributed in Africa.
Namely that a ‘new variety’ of ebola has shown up (it’s not precisely zebola),
it’s far more deadly this go around as it’s in an urban area
and apparently hundreds of african dying doesn’t mean anything to anyone but when AMERICANS get sick, THEY get a cure.
And that the US owns a patent on ‘ebola’.
All of which are true.
Let me know the last time a sequence was turned down for reasons OTHER than someone filing a patent on that prior.
I’ll wait.
Ah, facts are such pesky things, aren’t they...
http://therightscoop.com/video-al-gore-africas-population-a-problem-that-must-be-addressed/
Add in the fact that many of our elites are on the record wanting to ‘do something’ about Africa’s ‘population problem’ and even African peasants can afford that brand of tinfoil.
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