Re: LPF boycott of Apple

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From: Craig Senft
Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1991 19:54

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I heard an interesting piece on NPR several days ago which reflects on the intellectual freedom issues discussed here.
It seems that researcher at NIH's Human Genome project has developed a method of identifying gene patterns quite easily and quickly (the method doesn't decode the gene, just identifies unique sequences). NIH is trying to patent all of the fragments that are so identified.
This really isn't part of the  Apple Boycott discussion but I thought it the idea of patenting gene sequences seemed somehow parallel to patenting & copyrighting algorithms etc.
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