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IPO finds cosmetic treatment patentable
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| Following the EPO decisions, the hearing
| officer in this case considered the claimed
| method was not treatment by surgery because
| the intervention did not burn the skin (as
| was the case in T 1172/03). There was also
| no suggestion that cells in the body were
| radically altered in the process (as was
| the case in T 383/03). The method was also
| not treatment by therapy, because
| (according to an expert medical witness)
| there were apparently no medical conditions
| that would benefit from wrinkle reduction
| resulting from the method. On the matter of
| inventive step, the hearing officer
| considered that GB2344532 did not contain
| clear and unmistakable directions to use
| the known process for reducing wrinkles,
| and that the use of the process to reduce
| wrinkles would be counter-intuitive (akin,
| so the hearing officer considered, to
| prescribing cigarettes for treatment of
| lung cancer), so the claimed invention
| would not be obvious to the skilled person.
| The objections raised could not therefore
| be sustained, and the application was
| remitted back to the examiner to conclude
| examination.
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http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2010/03/ipo-finds-cosmetic-treatment-patentable.html
Brazil Starts Public Consult On Retaliation Against US IP Rights
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| The Brazilian government today announced
| the start of a process of public
| consultation on suspension of concessions
| or obligations of intellectual property
| rights from the United States. The
| government on 15 March published a
| resolution of the Chamber of External Trade
| (CAMEX) launching the consultation,
| according to a Brazilian government press
| release.
|
| This follows a WTO dispute settlement
| ruling in a US-Brazil dispute on cotton
| subsidies where the US was found in non-
| compliance with international trade rules.
| The decision gave Brazil the authorisation
| to suspend its obligations on US goods
| including IP rights.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/2010/03/15/brazil-starts-public-consult-on-us-ip-rights-retaliation/
More Examples Of Patent Incentives Making The World Less Safe
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| Well, given Monsanto's history of patenting
| disease resistant crops -- and then over-
| aggressively attacking anyone who uses such
| crops (even accidentally), it would seem
| like a rather legitimate fear. Perhaps,
| rather than brushing this fear off, the
| USDA's Cereal Disease Laboratory (CDL)
| should work to do something to fix things?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20100315/1000478564.shtml
Red Menace: Stop the Ug99 Fungus Before Its Spores Bring Starvation
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_ug99_fungus
Recent:
Your genome isn't that precious â give it away
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| A more radical approach - and one likely to appal the privacy advocates - is
| to throw off the shackles of privacy protection altogether. This is the line
| followed by Harvard Medical School's Personal Genome Project, which aims to
| make personal genome sequencing more affordable and accessible. The PGP
| obliges those who choose to participate to make their genetic data and other
| personal information available to researchers and the public.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327224.500-your-genome-isnt-that-precious--give-it-away.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
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