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The patent trap? Open science advocates want CRISPR technology to be free (cbc.ca)
submitted by Lust4Me
joeflux -1 points 6y ago
So people who did nothing to help or fund the research, now want to make others give their work away for free.
If the "Open Science advocates" want to give it away for free, how about they pay for the complete rights, and then give it away for free?
If the "Open Science advocates" want to give it away for free, how about they pay for the complete rights, and then give it away for free?
Lust4Me [OP] 1 points 6y ago
The work is funded by national grants, so most Open Science Advocates have, in fact, paid for this upfront. Not to mention all the scientific methods that these particular discoveries were built on.
Blindmouseottawa 2 points 6y ago
If provided by state grants, the patent protection should not last as long then 5 years. They able to recover their own private investment by sales by that time. The technology advancement should be integrated easier on other technology.
joeflux 1 points 6y ago
Fully funded by the state? I don't think that is true. There's no indication of that in the article at least. What evidence do you have of that?
Googling, I see plenty of companies and private individuals funding it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/08/10/bill-gates-and-13-other-investors-pour-120-million-into-revolutionary-gene-editing-startup/#63b47fed664c
Yet you want to steal it and make it free and not give a penny to the people who personally paid $1billion dollars in total into the technology. How does that work?
Googling, I see plenty of companies and private individuals funding it: http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2015/08/10/bill-gates-and-13-other-investors-pour-120-million-into-revolutionary-gene-editing-startup/#63b47fed664c
Yet you want to steal it and make it free and not give a penny to the people who personally paid $1billion dollars in total into the technology. How does that work?
Lust4Me [OP] 1 points 6y ago
*After* the discoveries, of course everyone is investing in this revolutionary technology. Commercialization of novel applications is one thing, but restricting future companies from exploring the natural method evolved by bacteria through natural selection?
The patents are being pursed by the universities, which would restrict the very companies you're quoting above.
The very article YOU quote states:
> It’s a big leap for a technology that has yet to even be tried in patients – **especially since the intellectual property landscape around CRISPR-Cas9 is treacherous. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuel Charpentier published the first paper detailing how to use the enzyme to cut DNA. They filed for a patent for using it to edit the DNA of cells with nuclei – like those of plants, animals, and people – too. But Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute filed a separate patent on using it in cells with nuclei, and it was granted first.**
The patents are being pursed by the universities, which would restrict the very companies you're quoting above.
The very article YOU quote states:
> It’s a big leap for a technology that has yet to even be tried in patients – **especially since the intellectual property landscape around CRISPR-Cas9 is treacherous. Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuel Charpentier published the first paper detailing how to use the enzyme to cut DNA. They filed for a patent for using it to edit the DNA of cells with nuclei – like those of plants, animals, and people – too. But Feng Zhang of the Broad Institute filed a separate patent on using it in cells with nuclei, and it was granted first.**
joeflux 1 points 6y ago
That sounds like something the lawyers should work out. If some discovery was entirely paid for by public funds, then I absolutely agree that it should be made publicly available.
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