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 freejazz on Sunday November 17, 2024 @06:33PM (#42168312)

Well you wouldn't know something is patentable from the outset, that's the whole point.

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by vasco on Monday November 18, 2024 @02:57AM (#42170607)

Of course you do, when you start a project you know how you're going to do it. Even if you never done it before and it might fail, you know what you're going to try, so you know from the outset if it's patentable or if your attempt is based on someone else's approach so it's not patentable.

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by david-gpu on Monday November 18, 2024 @12:03PM (#42174386)

> when you start a project you know how you're going to do it

In my experience that has only been true for the simplest tasks I've been assigned to do. The only examples that come to mind are stuff I did as a junior developer. YMMV, of course.

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Re:Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR p... by freejazz on Monday November 18, 2024 @01:12PM (#42175144)

So you know you are going to invent something totally novel before you invent it?

You either don't understand what 'novel' or 'patentable' means.

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