Patents, Copyrights & Licence Agreements

[Duncan Clark]

In article <2c86kh$lp2 at news.u.washington.edu> toby at stein3.u.washington.edu writes:

>In article <2c7u4qINNllr at medicine.wustl.edu>,
>Eric R. Hugo <eric at bcserv.WUSTL.EDU> wrote:
>>     Unfortunately the only way around the current situation that I
>>can see is to fight these patents in court and I doubt that most
>>companies can afford to lock horns with Hoffman-LaRouch (sp?).
>
>DuPont can and did afford it -- guess how it came out.
>
>Toby Bradshaw                       |
>Department of Biochemistry          |  Will make genetic linkage maps
>and College of Forest Resources     |            for food.
>University of Washington, Seattle   |
>toby at u.washington.edu               |
>

Dupont fought over the PCR patent not the enzyme patent. 
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