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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?
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
Keywords: slavery, involuntary servitude, legal precedent
Summary: We us got a problem here, cub scouts!

[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.