Leading scientist attacks university over 'outrageous' IVF treatment patent

Hmm...

Leading scientist attacks university over 'outrageous' IVF treatment patent

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Jacques Cohen, one of the world's leading embryologists, has attacked Stanford University and the biotechnology company Auxogyn over their "outrageous" request to be given a patent on cell-cycle data being used to develop IVF treatments. This has now been granted by the US patent office.

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"Nature should not be owned by anyone," said Cohen, an embryologist based at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Washington. In the journal Reproductive BioMedicine Online, he states: "Claiming aspects of natural processes in embryos as property is an outrageous attempt to over-commercialise every step of an already expensive medical procedure."

Good post, R09; I missed that one in the news.

Patents and copyrights in the US have gotten ridiculous. They have become products in their own right, rather than the protection of original works.

Maybe I'll file for a patent on arithmetic. I don't think anyone owns that yet. Imagine the royalties I'll receive from the elementary schools using "my" copyrighted ideas.

What idiocy.