[DesertRhino]

https://www.michaelcrichton.com/patenting-life/

Michael Crichton warned about this very thing in 2007 and why it is so dangerous to allow people to patent a biological organism or a method of surgery etc.

[ransomnote]

PING - CDC’s patent on Coronavirus from 2003.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt.

5.56mm

[Vermont Lt]

You realize that a coronavirus is a general type of virus. They are not all the same.

I cannot believe it’s more than a year into this and people are still this ignorant about what is going on.

[DesertRhino]

“This essay breaks the law”

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html

Another very good one from 2006. He understood what we happening.

[bagster]

But wait. Didn't that 2a pharma shill assure us that they didn't have no patents, no how no way?

Oooops.

[DesertRhino]

“The speed of light is a constant.
Apples fall to earth because of gravity.
Elevated blood sugar is linked to diabetes.
Elevated uric acid is linked to gout.
Elevated homocysteine is linked to heart disease.

Elevated homocysteine is linked to B-12 deficiency, so doctors should test homocysteine levels to see whether the patient needs vitamins.

ACTUALLY, I can’t make that last statement. A corporation has patented that fact, and demands a royalty for its use. Anyone who makes the fact public and encourages doctors to test for the condition and treat it can be sued for royalty fees. Any doctor who reads a patient’s test results and even thinks of vitamin deficiency infringes the patent. A federal circuit court held that mere thinking violates the patent.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opinion/19crichton.html

[exinnj]

How a government agency personnel, people who get paid with taxpayers money, can own patents? Any researcher at a pharmaceutical company making an invention, by the nature of his contract, sells the rights to such invention to the company that employs him/her for $1.

[mrsmith]

What is even the point of your idiocy?

*Everybody* has sequenced the virus.

[House Atreides]

I see THE CONFEDERACY OF MORONS has gathered to try to conflate the SARS-CoV virus that was responsible for the the 2002-2003 SARS mini-epidemic with the SARS-CoV-2 virus responsible for the COVID-19 epidemic. They are NOT the same virus. BUT NICE TRY, MORONS.

[vigilante2]

We knew this a year ago

[Wuli]

And how many other outfits in how many other countries entered patents in their own patent systems on the same virus?? Quite a few it turns out.