The gene is naturally occurring, sure. The isolated, amplified gene described in these patents - not so much.

Lots of things that are claimed in patents are the result of manipulation of naturally occurring materials. In fact anything physical, made by man is basically a manipulation of naturally occurring materials.

If isolated genes actually did occur naturally this would be a discovery.

Since they don't, the argument is they are an invention.

It's more than just that though. Patents require that the invention be useful. In this case the gene in isolated form is useful because it can be used as a test for the likelihood of getting cancer.

So it's not a patent of a gene in vivo just because it's been sequenced.

It's a patent of an isolated gene that is useful in a lab test.

Now a lot of people have problems with this for various reasons, but it doesn't add to the discussion to whine about the genes in your body being patentable.

They aren't.

Good job. You have successfully misunderstood a story that was in itself a misunderstanding.

And some other area that didn't bid as highly didn't benefit.

Tax subsidies are a stupid political game. The only winners are the companies.

My favorite is a 30" 2560x1600. The vertical pixel count is very nice. The Koreans can deliver these at a reasonable price. If you have money you can get them for about 1K in a nice IPS flavor.

I don't like the 27" 2560's because the dot pitch is marginal for my below average eyesight.

And I have yet to find a 1920 x 1200 27".

Right now I am using a cheap pair of 27" 1920 x 1080, but I am definitely going to at least one 30" 2560x1600 in the next couple of months.

Sorry to break this to you but the majority of Amish farmers use hybrid seeds for at least some of their crops,

http://accad.osu.edu/~midori/Game/intro_farm.html

In fact one of the earliest hybrid seed companies (Yoders) was Amish.

RIM stock had a nice run-up late last year.

That plus the fact that this company is on the downslope makes it pretty obvious that he made a wise financial decision.

Well I still have a copy of 2011 Home and Office lying around that has been installed once.

I figure by the time I use the last install of this MS will have realized the error of their ways and be back to some sort of multi-install license.

There is some logic to the use of these materials.

After all most of the life in aquatic environments is on or near the surface. The most important ecologies are the salt marshes and the top 200 meters or so of the ocean (epipelalogic zone) which is sunlit. It is where all the action is. 90% of life is found in this top layer. It is where the most complex and presumably vulnerable life forms are found.

So submerging the oil potentially reduces the harm that a spill may cause.

> Since fucking when is a farmer saving seeds not SOP?

Since the invention of hybridization about 100 years ago.

> there have been instances of Monsanto claiming that farmers who simply have their seeds in their field, even through natural spreading, owe them a fee

Really? Every case like this I've dug into involved some action by the farmer to collect and select seed.

So I'd be interested if you have a concrete example.

Yes, this will be an interesting case. Patent exhaustion usually makes this sort of thing outside patent coverage.

Interface and human interaction experts don't have any clue either. Lot's of education, sure but it's too generalized. Most computer software has a specific target audience that has quirks.

The only way to know for sure is get the product out and collect feedback.

The problem is social. The test results coming out of the suburbs are as good as anything anywhere on the planet.

The results coming out of the center cities might as well be coming out of the worst holes on the planet.

Better go take a close look at the 14th Amendment there sonny.