My response on Facebook
uhm.... please, let me start and just say ..... WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!???!!
although I don't know what that exactly will mean in terms of consequential manifestations.... hmm... I don't see how that's exactly is going to be used. Nothing against good bio-tec, it's just the Evil-forms that worry me. But one can't patent "illegal" patents, it's just the even though tec would be registered, it would also be probably publicly accessible via patent-search, and that would allow more wide-area of abuse? How is that different than any other tec? Nuclear-knowledge has been here for a long time, so anyone planning on a mass murder or extinction would have had to come out a while ago. Waiting for the right time? Using microbes? The patenting wasn't the problem, they already did create bio-weapons and already used for war, even some claim that HIV isn't a natural mutation, but the product of an ambitious mad American scientist (not people or government plat by definition) that just had to "go there"!!! -_- The patent would just actually put the blame & praise where it belongs. It's just an administrative issue, that should enforce justice. So I don't think that's the problem. I'm just wondering what is allowed to patented exactly? Meaning anyone that want to use the knowledge of the sequences that are discovered, now has to pay royalty for the patent holder, or what? It seems only to apply to unique synthetic DNA, if I'm not glancing over something. So no one would actually own our Gene sequences, but their invented, modified version? I'm too lazy to get into this part of this field at this point, just flowing to trigger someone that might be able to shine a better light with less efforts. Anyone?
