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Next-Gen Biotech Patent Tests Needed, Says Supreme Court
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| A Supreme Court ruling June 28 on idea
| patents disappointed those hoping for an
| overhaul of intellectual property claims
| for software, but it may inspire new
| patent tests aimed at the legally
| troublesome biotechnology field.
|
| According to the court, the widely
| followed âmachine-or-transformationâ test
| â which limits patents to machines
| designed for a specific purpose, or
| processes that physically transform an
| object â is outdated. This test is also at
| the heart of at least two other legal
| cases currently being contested that could
| shape the future of the biotech business.
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/06/beyond-bilski/
Novartis, Myriad Get Boost After Court Patent Ruling
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| Myriad Genetics Inc., Genomic Health Inc.
| and the rest of the burgeoning industry
| for personalized medicine stand to gain
| from yesterdayâs landmark U.S. Supreme
| Court decision on patenting business
| methods.
|
| [...]
|
| The decision from the Supreme Court is
| unlikely to end the debate over diagnostic |
| patents.
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http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-07-01/novartis-myriad-get-boost-after-court-patent-ruling.html
What Bilski Means For Biotech Patents
http://science.slashdot.org/story/10/07/02/1850258/What-Bilski-Means-For-Biotech-Patents
Recent:
Groups around the U.S. Join Haitian Farmers in Protesting "Donation" of Monsanto Seeds
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| AGRA Watch in Seattle plans a march today
| which will end outside the Gates Foundation
| office. AGRA stands for A Green Revolution in
| Africa, which is a multinational corporation-
| driven, GMO-driven program now being launched
| in Africa. The Gates Foundation has been a key
| promoter of AGRA. The group says, âThe dumping
| of toxic seeds in Haiti is the latest in a
| series of unsustainable solutions that
| Monsanto has pushed on farmers around the
| world. If the Gates Foundation wants to
| support a truly sustainable agricultural
| system in Africa, they must divorce themselves
| from Monsanto. Haitian farmers and African
| farmers have said NO! to corporate control of
| their food systems. The Gates Foundation and
| AGRA must say no to Monsanto.â
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http://thewip.net/talk/2010/06/groups_around_the_us_join_hait.html
Bill Gates reveals support for GMO eg
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| As it has come to dominate the agenda for
| reshaping African agriculture over the years,
| the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has
| been very careful not to associate itself too
| closely with patent-protected biotechnology
| as a panacea for African farmers.
|
| True, the foundation named 25-year Monsanto
| veteran Rob Horsch to the position of "senior
| program officer, focusing on improving crop
| yields in sub-Saharan Africa."
|
| Yet its flagship program for African ag, the
| Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa
| (AGRA), explicitly distances itself from
| GMOs. "AGRA does not fund the development of
| GMOs," the organization's Web site states.
|
| But AGRA -- co-funded by the Rockefeller
| Foundation, proud sponsor of the original
| Green Revolution -- is just part of what
| Gates does around African ag. What precisely
| is the foundation getting up to over there?
| Is it pushing GMOs on African smallholder
| farms?
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http://www.grist.org/article/2009-10-21-bill-gates-reveals-support-for-gmo-ag
Gates backs GM crops: tech must help farmers, feed rising population
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| Giving his full support to the use of
| genetic engineering in agriculture,
| Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill
| Gates today said if the world continued to
| produce food with existing technologies it
| would not be able to feed its increasing
| population.
|
| In an interview with Shekhar Gupta,
| Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, for
| NDTVâs Walk The Talk programme, Gates, who
| is on a visit to India for work related to
| his charitable foundation, said the world
| needed newer crops with increased
| productivity, better adaptability to
| changing climatic conditions and the ones
| that use less of insecticides. And these,
| he said, could only be made through
| innovations in agricultural biotechnology
| sector.
|
| âTechnology, properly applied, is the
| reason, if you like, why nine billion
| people can live on this planet without
| destroying it,â said Gates who toured
| remote villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
| during his visit.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Gates-backs-GM-crops--tech-must-help-farmers--feed-rising-population/619502
Gates backs GM crops: tech must help farmers, feed rising population
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| Giving his full support to the use of
| genetic engineering in agriculture,
| Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill
| Gates today said if the world continued to
| produce food with existing technologies it
| would not be able to feed its increasing
| population.
|
| In an interview with Shekhar Gupta,
| Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express, for
| NDTVâs Walk The Talk programme, Gates, who
| is on a visit to India for work related to
| his charitable foundation, said the world
| needed newer crops with increased
| productivity, better adaptability to
| changing climatic conditions and the ones
| that use less of insecticides. And these,
| he said, could only be made through
| innovations in agricultural biotechnology
| sector.
|
| âTechnology, properly applied, is the
| reason, if you like, why nine billion
| people can live on this planet without
| destroying it,â said Gates who toured
| remote villages in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar
| during his visit.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Gates-backs-GM-crops--tech-must-help-farmers--feed-rising-population/619502
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