Xref: utzoo talk.bizarre:12226 misc.legal:4755 talk.politics.misc:9760 misc.jobs.misc:1705 sci.bio:1164 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mtunx!mtune!codas!uflorida!gatech!mcnc!xanth!kent From: kent@xanth.cs.odu.edu (Kent Paul Dolan) Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable? Summary: We us got a problem here, cub scouts! Keywords: slavery, involuntary servitude, legal precedent Message-ID: <4872@xanth.cs.odu.edu> Date: 15 Apr 88 11:56:49 GMT References: <97500013@prism> Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) Followup-To: talk.bizarre Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va. Lines: 26 [Follow ups directed firmly to talk.bizarre; cross-posted for a wider interested audience's delight] In article <97500013@prism> atj@prism.TMC.COM writes: > >Harvard Univ. was just granted a PATENT for a new species of mice! >(genetically engineered.) > >Every single descendant of the original mouse is OWNED by Harvard. Oh boy! The perfect precedent! Let's clear up, say, Down's syndrome in a family line with gene therapy. We can bring back slavery. Legally! The patent office says so! Fools. Kent, the man from xanth.