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From: dlleigh@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Darren L. Leigh)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,misc.legal,talk.politics.misc,misc.jobs.misc,sci.bio
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
Summary: please don't misquote me
Message-ID: <2403@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 28 Apr 88 23:24:14 GMT
References: <2354@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <3585@fluke.COM>
Reply-To: dlleigh@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Darren L. Leigh)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <3585@fluke.COM> inc@tc.fluke.COM (Gary Benson) writes:
>In Article 5767 of misc.legal, dlleigh@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU I write:

>>I say, patent the mouse and don't get ulcers until our friends
>>the genetic engineers can actually *do* something scary.
>>Let's burn that bridge when we come to it.

>Darren, that reaction is just plain irresponsible and short-sighted. We are
>confronted today by the toughest moral issues in history as the result of
>the miracles of science, and you say we should wait to think about them
>until the bio-engineers actually *do* something? Look at what is happening,

Look, if you're spoiling for a fight, I'm not interested.  Just please
don't misquote me.  I did not say that we should wait until
bioengineers *do* something.  I said we should wait until the
bio-engineers *can* do something.  There is a huge difference.  Nobody
sees anything wrong with patenting that little mouse itself;  what people
are flaming about is "what will we do when they try to patent fake
humans, blah, blah, blah . . .".  Look, we aren't even close to being
able to do anything like that.  If we wait until the technology is
closer we'll be able to make a better decision.

>in my opinion your posting is flippant and adds nothing to the discussion.

Well, sorry.  Now go crawl back into your hole and take your
ulcer medicine.

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