Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by anonymouskimmer on Sunday November 17, 2024 @12:15PM (#42165362)

> Is PCR patented, or was it at some point?

Loud YES! And it only recently came off patent. This was really important for thermalcycler companies such as Bio-rad, which probably wouldn't be the name it is without those patents.

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by david-gpu on Sunday November 17, 2024 @01:21PM (#42165817)

So what was this guy complaining about, then?

And it is not like patents prevent academics from doing research, either, as there are academic exceptions. In fact, the patent filing process forces the inventors to disclose how their invention works in detail, which makes it easier for academics to build on those ideas if they want to. It's only commercial applications that are really bound by IP licensing agreements, to my knowledge.

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by moralestapia on Sunday November 17, 2024 @01:55PM (#42166083)

It was an opinion. I explicitly wrote "IMO" in there.

If you don't like it I couldn't care less :^).

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by david-gpu on Sunday November 17, 2024 @04:04PM (#42167238)

> It was an opinion. I explicitly wrote "IMO" in there.

Ctrl-F "IMO". No matches. Oops.

Ctrl-F "opinion". No matches. Oops.

And I'll leave this conversation here because neither of us is bothering to follow HN commenting guidelines at this point.

Good luck with your research and I hope that if you apply for a patent it will be granted sells well.

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by aipatselarom on Sunday November 17, 2024 @02:15PM (#42166273)

Bio-rad was founded 72 years ago, what are you talking about?

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