Comments for ACPFG Blog http://www.acpfg.com.au/blog Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:17:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Gene Patents by Dave Lawrence http://www.acpfg.com.au/blog/?p=14#comment-21 Dave Lawrence Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:17:07 +0000 http://www.acpfg.com.au/blog/?p=14#comment-21 "As is the case with many new technologies, some of the early gene patents were very broad. These will gradually expire and therefore concerns with that particular group of patents should not form part of this debate." It's often only with time that you can judge whether patents were too broad. Patents (including future ones) will always be made at the cutting edge before widespread dispersal of the ideas, so perhaps we will always have this problem? “As is the case with many new technologies, some of the early gene patents were very broad. These will gradually expire and therefore concerns with that particular group of patents should not form part of this debate.”

It’s often only with time that you can judge whether patents were too broad. Patents (including future ones) will always be made at the cutting edge before widespread dispersal of the ideas, so perhaps we will always have this problem?

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