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Re: Patents on tech writing techniques?

Subject: Re: Patents on tech writing techniques?
From: Annamaria Profit <inteltek2 -at- earthlink -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 11:09:42 -0400


John,
It's worse than that. A number of biotech/pharma/chem companies have taken patents on the dna of individuals from their research trials! It's a bad day when you can't even use your own dna because some company holds the patent!

At 09:17 AM 4/17/02 +0200, John Cornellier wrote:

Seems you can patent anything these days. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted a patent for swinging on a
[playground] swing "inducing a component of forward and back motion into the swinging motion, resulting in a swinging path that
is generally shaped as an oval. ...

Annamaria Profit
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