MGSC05H3 Lecture Notes - Pharmaceutical Industry, Systemics, Asteroid Family
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Conflict b/w the orginal creator vs the secondary creator. Think of journalist who discovers theres a interesting family in the hills of. Saying its okay for a company to patent a human: systemics: forcing journalist to share prize money. Coke patented coka cola theyre patenting bone morrow b/c they came up w. it. Analogy for other scientists is other journalists. No one expects journalist to share profits w. family, It would be useless to arrange it differently: company is patenting alphabetical ordering the idea. Intelletual property the closer something is to a word or letter as opposed to a sentence or a paragraph . Basic building block, less likely to be patentable , alphabetical very basic. In oen of the cases plaintiff won, defendant in the other. Copyright- text, music, print cant copy other persons work , but if two ppl can simultaneously come up w. it no evidence that one copied form other, both right to copy.
