tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post4159537568604041188..comments2024-03-19T01:31:44.242-05:00Comments on Holman's Biotech IP Blog: The ACLU Gene Patent Decision from an Investor's Perspective: A Black Eye for the US Patent SystemChris Holmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13743481878076443159noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-12305254794206070362011-10-26T23:13:15.955-05:002011-10-26T23:13:15.955-05:00I have a web site where I give advise on penny sto...I have a web site where I give advise on penny stocks and stocks under five dollars. I have many many years of experience with these type of stocks. If their is anyone that is interested in these type of stocks you can check out my web site by just clicking penny stocks. I would like to take a moment to talk about low price stocks not classic penny stocks or stocks under one dollar the term most people most often think of when the word penny stock is used. Their are companies of really decent quality trading under five dollars’ but for every one company trading under five dollars that is of decent quality their are maybe ten of poor quality. So the really big difference between those investors that are tremendously successfull when it comes to investing in low price stocks and those investors that lose enormous amounts of money investing in stocks under five dollars’ is having a great deal of knowledge and experience when it comes to low price stocks’ or having a total lack of knowledge and experience when it comes to low price stocks. Finding quality stocks under five dollars requires a lot more research than finding a decent stock above ten dollars.penny stockshttp://www.manhattancalumet.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-3491027853682989702010-05-03T15:33:07.122-05:002010-05-03T15:33:07.122-05:00If the claims were tailored differently, I'd t...If the claims were tailored differently, I'd think that a method of discovering or using a gene would be patentable subject matter.Feigin, Patent Attorneyhttp://PatentLawNY.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-21464387831304528112010-04-09T03:21:54.706-05:002010-04-09T03:21:54.706-05:00Actually, any fair analysis of patent laws effects...Actually, any fair analysis of patent laws effects on research, prior to Chakrabarty vs post Chakrabarty, would show that the black eye has been planted solidly on our public research institutions. Universities, as a direct result of genetic patenting, have become insular beggars of private, corporate, strings-attached funding. Research at our public institutions now largely benefit a few companies instead of all Americans. Developments and techniques are now kept secret rather than shared between public institutions. Your argument is further sullied by a cursory look at funding of non-profitable, or less profitable genetic research, like that being done on MS, where funds are readily available as a result of the larger public good. However, in light of the likes of the Cato institute and the Birchers now occupying our Federal benches, I don't think this ruling will stand, unfortunately. And your great companies will be free to make their enormous profits at will.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12214274586738588506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-35952918329283358512010-04-09T00:41:52.768-05:002010-04-09T00:41:52.768-05:00genepatents: and even a cursory reading of my book...genepatents: and even a cursory reading of my book, or my articles, or my op-eds on the subject would demonstrate to you that I make no such literal comparison (save a provocative title, which was likewise used by Scientific American years before regarding the same subject - those shameless PR-mongers), and I thoroughly confront the illogic of the claim that "isolated and purified" genes are in any way worthy of patents, both ethically, and legally, with detailed argument. Numerous academics agree, some disagree.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018243335902307150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-11183944993737519682010-04-08T14:23:23.143-05:002010-04-08T14:23:23.143-05:00Equating the ownership of individuals to the abili...Equating the ownership of individuals to the ability to exclude others from using, making and selling a newly discovered isolated chemical compound is unbecoming of an academician. I appreciate and respect decent and another point of view. My problem is with emotionally charged asinine comparisons.genepatentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05117069261420660560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-10092694949134711842010-04-08T05:57:08.538-05:002010-04-08T05:57:08.538-05:00genepatents and anonymous:
I have made zip, zero,...genepatents and anonymous:<br /><br />I have made zip, zero, nada, 0$ off the book, thanks, it's an academic book, not a popular one, and if you knew anything about academic publishing, you'd know no such books ever make the author any money.<br /><br />and I am an atheist, actually.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018243335902307150noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-876006145692971422010-04-07T16:28:13.049-05:002010-04-07T16:28:13.049-05:00drkoepsell, please keep your religion to yourself....drkoepsell, please keep your religion to yourself.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-82213796704985402712010-04-05T15:14:20.398-05:002010-04-05T15:14:20.398-05:00Yet it is ethically sound to use this subject to p...Yet it is ethically sound to use this subject to pawn you book and make money.genepatentshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05117069261420660560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2774042125883658.post-22450667020359961562010-04-04T03:23:57.008-05:002010-04-04T03:23:57.008-05:00Sometimes, Chris, law catches up with justice, and...Sometimes, Chris, law catches up with justice, and people lose money in the process, but justice is more important. Imagine the horror to investors in the slave trade when slavery was abolished in the US. While hardly equivalent in the scale of evil involved, investors lost money, and the abolition of slavery comported with people's (well, many people's) notions of justice. As I argued in my book, in the parts you didn't comprehend or bother to read, there are fundamental ethical issues that make the patents that Myriad and other companies hold incursions on a commons-by-necessity, which violates deontological ethical principles, outweighing any utilitarian calculus. There are simply parts of the universe that cannot be laid claim to justly by govt-sanctioned monopolies. I'm glad the court made this bold move, and again, while not comparable in scale of evil, I hope this case reflects a new era akin to that ushered in by Brown v. Topeka Bd. of Education.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05018243335902307150noreply@blogger.com