MGSC05H3 Lecture 9: MGTC45- Lecture 9
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Said that patenting bone marrow is like patenting the human hand. However the other party said that it was like a person winning a pulitzer prize for their innovation and how they are not expected to share. If you pick the wrong metaphor when somebody points out that the metaphor has problems. They are not patenting bone marrow but the method of creating it. Scientists have no reason to share it with the bone marrow but cannot prevent other scientists. Journalism writes about this special family or this special method of creating bone marrow from going to the bone marrow to make their own technique. Because we cannot prevent other journalist from accessing the family so you shouldn"t be able to prevent other scientists from going to the bone marrow. West-law has been the main company printing bound volumes of court cases and decisions. They could not copyright the cases, but they copyrighted the page numbers of which the case.
