PUBPOL 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Jeremy Rifkin, Organism, Bioethics
16 Nov 2017
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Us statutes allowed pate(cid:374)ts o(cid:374) (cid:862)a(cid:374)(cid:455) new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, but case precedent: organism as a technology: Jeremy rifkin + civil society challengers tried to shift the conversation to focus on the metaphysical aspects of allowing patents on life, rather than on products of nature. This might have required decision makers to consider the moral implications of such patents and cede decision making to the legislature. challengers were rebuffed rhetorically, told that they simply did(cid:374)"t u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)d how the patent system worked and. Congress seemed content to treat the question of patentability as a legal and technical matter that was now settled. prohibited patents o(cid:374) (cid:862)produ(cid:272)ts of (cid:374)ature. (cid:863) Scotus to handle the decision central issue in the. It would strengthen dominion over life forms through property and ownership. This devalues life overall: disputed the idea that an unfettered market and a patent system that simply facilitated it would necessarily produce social good.
