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On 23 Sep 2002 at 20:15, Bob Allison wrote: > California is to be commended, but I heard on NPR that there is some > doubt that this law will have an impact because companies cannot > obtain patents for any revelations they find in research. Patents > are granted by the federal govt for 17 years to encourage > inventions/research by companies. Without patents to protect their > findings, another company can copycat their work without having to > spend all the money that the researcher had to spend. Bob ----- Good Morning Bob and All, There was a precedent set earlier this year in Europe... BERLIN, Germany -- A loophole in a controversial patent that allowed human cloning has been closed, the European Patent Office has said. July 24, 2002 Posted: 1:41 PM EDT (1741 GMT) http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/07/24/cloning.patent/index.html cheers ....... murray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn