1st April 2010, 9:00 PM
Indeed, but it was overturned so that's not the case any more. That's the good news.
My other point about being able to be sued for infringement? I think it's very unlikely that would ever happen, but they still technically have the right, and THAT is what I take offense to. I shouldn't rest easy knowing only that they don't do it only because it doesn't benefit them at the moment. If someone does something that hurts the company line with the wrong genes, well suddenly it becomes a lot more viable doesn't it?
My other point about being able to be sued for infringement? I think it's very unlikely that would ever happen, but they still technically have the right, and THAT is what I take offense to. I shouldn't rest easy knowing only that they don't do it only because it doesn't benefit them at the moment. If someone does something that hurts the company line with the wrong genes, well suddenly it becomes a lot more viable doesn't it?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)