So it's not multi touch as a whole that's patented.

It isn't only the number of drugs that are patented.

That is all there is to it. Apple has patented this.

At least they patented something which, you know, could do useful things.

You can do multi fingered gestures on it, and boy have we patented it.

And Tamiflu. You've probably heard of this drug, made by Hoffmann La Roche, patented drug.

Mr. general sends you congratulations for being established for a court producer of patented airships.

What if they had patented pop up menus, scrollbars, the desktop with icons that look like folders and sheets of paper?

Furthermore, scientists at the Centre have developed and patented an innovative biopesticide, which is available for the agroindustry in developing countries.

Now it may seem kind of strange that such a thing can actually be patented, but it does happen all the time.

In Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser, Monsanto patented a glyphosate resistant gene and cell, creating canola plants that were resistant to the herbicide Roundup.

The Court was also of opinion that infringement by use did not require use of the patented genes or cells in their isolated, laboratory form.

And by a lucky coincidence you see before you modelled by the lovely little lady the new, improved, patented, handy dandy, neverfail little giant log puller.

The majority of the Court held that by collecting, saving and planting seeds containing Monsanto's patented gene and cell, Schmeiser infringed section 42 of the Patent Act.

Therefore, Schmeiser deprived Monsanto of the full enjoyment of its monopoly and employed or possessed the patented invention in the context of their commercial or business interests.

What might such a shift look like? Some propose abandoning the current system of patented drugs altogether and funding pharmaceutical R D through taxation or prize based systems.

What might such a shift look like? Some propose abandoning the current system of patented drugs altogether and funding pharmaceutical R amp D through taxation or prize based systems.

The Declaration responds to the claim by developing nations that they are unable to afford the patented pharmaceuticals needed to address the massive HIV AIDS crisis within their borders.

It asked WHO to report on the collection and commercialization of patented materials from indigenous peoples and to convene a global conference of indigenous peoples involved in health issues.

The list could also be supplemented with crimes such as money laundering, smuggling of illegal migrants, organized sexual exploitation of minors, illegal trafficking in patented inventions and crimes against the environment.

(c) A great number of simple synthesis methods and pathways have been developed, patented and or published in the scientific literature, usually consisting of few steps leading from a precursor to the desired end product

The answer is simple Most economic ideas are public goods that cannot be patented or otherwise owned by their inventors. Just because most economists are not rich does not mean that they have not made many people richer.

I was working on a very interesting technology at MIT, but it was a very long term view of how to develop technology, and it was going to be a very expensive technology, and also it would be patented.

On May 13, 2004, Parliament passed The Jean Chrétien Pledge to Africa Act, which permits generic versions of patented medicines to be exported to developing and least developed countries, helping their peoples to live longer and better lives and raise families.

So that you can just appreciate how serious I am about all this, I brought along the patents, the specifications for some of these works, because I've had my working methods patented at the Eidgenössische Amt für Geistiges Eigentum in Bern, Switzerland.

Article 31 of TRIPS stipulates the conditions under which members of WTO may grant compulsory licensing, i.e. licences to physicians, researchers and others to use a patented gene sequence without the patent holder's permission, for a reasonable fee paid to the patent holder.

He was upset by the low quality and high cost of existing patent reproductions, and so he started to develop a system of dry photocopying, which he patented in the late 1930s and which became the first dry photocopier that was commercially practical in 1960.

Measures such as investment and export subsidies for specific industries or enterprises, domestic content rules and export balancing provisions will have to be phased out, and the setting of conditions for fostering the transfer and application of patented technologies will become much more stringent.

The Court must answer the following question Can human genes your genes be patented? Put another way, should someone essentially be permitted to own the right, say, to test whether you have a set of genes that imply a higher than 50 probability of developing breast cancer?

And so DNA didn't become a useful molecule, and the lawyers didn't enter into the equation until 1973, 20 years later, when Boyer and Cohen in San Francisco and Stanford came up with their method of recombinant DNA, and Stanford patented it and made a lot of money.

If it were not for the embargo, Cuban biotechnology institutions working on various advanced research projects, such as therapeutic vaccines against various types of cancer (10 projects in all) or monoclonal antibodies patented for early cancer detection, could be helpful in dealing with this serious illness, among other things.

While the plaintiffs assert that genes are identified, not invented, the defendants claim that the basis of patent law is precisely the opposite. Their argument is that what is patented is not the gene as it occurs in our bodies, but rather a sort of cloned version produced in the laboratory.

They stated that although indigenous communities could achieve a form of defensive protection through the documentation and public disclosure of their knowledge, particularly insofar as patents were concerned, whereby their traditional knowledge could not be patented for private gain, in certain cases the public domain concept might harm indigenous communities.

But we are also discovering behavioral economics the human quirks and emotional urges that drive people to do things that make little economic sense. The best joke of all that Bezos bought the Post by mistake through an errant one click purchase (a capability patented by Amazon) has a ring of truth to it.

That battle was lost in 1980, when the United States Supreme Court decided that a genetically modified micro organism designed to clean up oil spills could be patented. (Obviously, given the damage caused by the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, there is still some work to be done on that particular organism.)

One in five human genes is now patented, even though the human genome might be thought to be our common heritage. And although Boyle doesn t mention this latest development, umbilical cord blood, taken in the final stage of labor, is now banked by profit making firms as a potential though unlikely source of stem cells for the baby.

However, even though the product had been patented by a German company that is a leader in the global agrochemical sector, Cuba was unable to purchase the product owing to the fact that its active ingredient is synthesized in Puerto Rico, a country denied the right to self determination, and controlled like a colonial possession, by the United States.

Government policy regarding access to, and procurement of foreign patented technology and or protection of locally gen9. For the role of a key Chilean research centre in this connection, see Jaffee and Gordon, 1993 Agosin, 1997). erated technology, as well as institutional support for R amp D, are key components in determining a country s diversification capacity.

This is what you see today, and this is in developing countries, so what that means is, unless we do something deliberate and unless we do something now, we will very soon be faced with another drug price crisis, because new drugs are developed, new drugs go to market, but these medicines are patented in a much wider range of countries.

The goal would be to ensure that developing countries can employ the kind of trade and industrial policies needed to restructure and diversify their economies and set the stage for economic growth. All countries that have successfully globalized have used such policies, many of which (e.g., subsidies, domestic content rules, reverse engineering of patented products) are currently not allowed under WTO rules.

If it were not for the embargo, it might have been possible to save the lives of thousands, and maybe even hundreds of thousands, of United States citizens suffering from the physical effects and other limitations of not being treated, for absurd political reasons, with PPG, the most effective and cheapest anti cholesterol medication available, which is patented in Cuba.

They included, for instance, the following reasons of national defence cases where there was only one source capable of providing the required service (e.g. because it involved the use of patented technology or special know how) lack of experienced personnel or of an adequate administrative structure to conduct competitive selection procedures or cases where a higher administrative authority of the host country had authorized such an exception for reasons of public interest.

44. Patents on drugs technologies and equipment are valid in the United States for 17 years. Under United States law, Cuban citizens have not been allowed to buy drugs patented by the United States since 1979, which means that they have no access to third generation antibiotics and a number of products for the treatment of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, to cite only two examples. This compounds the situation described above concerning the prohibition of sale by subsidiaries.