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North Carolina seed company joins class-action lawsuit against Monsanto that seeks protection against predatory patent lawsuits 2/23/2012 - Asheville, N.C.-based Sow True Seed, a seed company that offers non-GMO, non-hybrid, and open-pollinated varieties of heirloom, organic, and traditional seeds, has joined a class-action lawsuit against biotechnology giant Monsanto that seeks protection for farmers against predatory patent lawsuits....

Federal appeals court reinstates corporate ownership over human genes for breast cancer 10/28/2011 12:16:59 PM - Reversing a previous decision by a US District Court that declared gene patenting to be invalid, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) recently ruled in opposition, declaring that certain gene variants are supposedly unnatural and can thus be legally patented by biotechnology companies. Myriad...

Judge strikes fear into biotech industry with nullification of patents on human genes BRCA1 4/1/2010 - As NaturalNews readers already know, corporations and universities right now claim intellectual property ownership over roughly twenty percent of your genetic code. This absurdity has occurred due to bizarre operations of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office which has handed corporations intellectual...

Bad Patents, Evil Corporations and the Rise of Intellectual Imperialism 3/1/2008 - It is a defining characteristic of Western civilization that power-hungry men seek to declare ownership over all things they discover. For most of human history, such ownership efforts were focused on usable land. Owning land that could grow food, after all, was a valuable strategy for staying alive....

Scientist claims ownership over synthetic life forms 11/20/2007 - Craig Venter, the scientist who unsuccessfully attempted to map the human genome for profit, has applied for the first ever patent on a human-made life form. Venter has submitted his application at more than 100 national patent offices. In fact, the J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland...

Corporate Greed, Intellectual Property Laws and the Destruction of Human Civilization 10/5/2007 - Did you know that if you have children you are an international criminal? You have violated intellectual property laws by infringing on the copyrights of companies that have been granted patents on the human genome. You have replicated that gene sequence by having children without the permission of...

Influenza virus samples, vaccine patents and corporate lies 6/15/2007 - In this article, I'm going to explain the real story behind the big international push to get Indonesia and other Asian countries to "share" their H5N1 influenza samples with the rest of the world. As you may know, countries like Australia, the United States and the UK are applying heavy political pressure...

The new rules of imperialism: Economic warfare, consumer products and disease exports 5/29/2007 - History tells us that imperialist nations quite predictably invade weaker nations on a regular basis... especially when those weaker nations happen to be standing on valuable natural resources like oil or uranium. Thanks to this desire for strategic control over territories, the twentieth century was...

Review: The Future of Food, a must-see documentary that exposes the biotech threat to life on our planet 5/3/2007 - There is a cabal of power-hungry corporations that are systematically destroying humanity's future. These companies have taken over the food supply, injected pesticides, viruses and invading genes into staple crops, engineered "terminator" genes that make crop seeds unviable, destroyed the livelihood...

Thailand health minister stands firm against Big Pharma monopolistic profiteering 3/14/2007 - The health minister of Thailand, Mongkol na Songkhla, has announced that the country will override international drug patents if pharmaceutical companies do not significantly lower their prices to make medications affordable to the country's poor. Specifically, he cited drugs for cancer and heart disease. Jump...

Novartis sues India over drug patents; seeks to block generic manufacturing by third world nations 2/13/2007 - A legal challenge from drug maker Novartis to current Indian patent law could halt Indian companies from selling generic copies of drugs to combat AIDS and cancer to the third world. When India joined the World Trade Organization in 1995, they had ten years to update their patent laws to a standard...

Thai government sets aside patent law to produce generic AIDS, heart disease drugs 2/8/2007 - Thailand has authorized compulsory licenses to produce generic versions of two patented drugs, one being a HIV/AIDS antiretroviral drug, breaking the patents held by drug companies. The decision comes at the protest of the World Health Organization, which wanted the country to come to a compromise...

Media giants want to criminalize personal copying of movie DVDs to portable electronic devices 1/14/2007 - With so many portable video devices emerging on the market these days, there's a growing question about intellectual property and whether or not it's appropriate to rip video to formats that will play on these devices. One question is, for example, is it appropriate for you to rip your DVDs to a format...

Qflix technology for burning movie DVDs supported by major studios 1/8/2007 - Concerns about piracy have hampered consumers' ability to buy and burn to DVD digital versions of movies from the internet, but a new Hollywood-backed technology and licensing arrangement from Sonic Solutions Inc. could change that. Sonic Solutions' Qflix ads a standard digital lock -- called a content...

Merck to "pirate" Traditional Chinese Medicine compounds to develop new drugs, warns consumer health advocate 12/12/2006 - German pharmaceutical giant Merck announced last week that it would collaborate with a Chinese pharmaceutical company to develop new cancer drugs based on traditional Chinese herbs and botanical medicines. Hong Kong-based Chi-Med -- a pharmaceutical firm that develops consumer health products from...

McDonald's files 55-page patent on process to make a sandwich 12/7/2006 - The simple process of assembling a McDonalds sandwich may become a trade secret if the fast-food giant is granted the European and U.S. patents it filed for in June. Hoping to give its hot deli sandwiches a uniform look and taste across its many outlets, and cut down on production times, McDonalds...

Thailand issues license to manufacture generic version of Efavirenz; snubs Merck AIDS drug monopoly 12/4/2006 - Thailand announced last week that because of rising prices of foreign-made HIV/AIDS drugs, it would issue a five-year license to manufacture an inexpensive generic version of Merck & Co.'s Efavirenz drug. Though Merck -- which holds the patent on Efavirenz -- criticized the military Thai government's...

Copyright laws need serious overhaul to protect honest consumers in digital age, says think tank 11/1/2006 - When you copy CDs and DVDs that you purchased to your own portable electronic device, you are breaking the law if you are a British citizen. The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) is calling for a "private right to copy" of owned pieces of music in digital format, in an attempt to decriminalize...

The future of food fabrication, intellectual property and seeds 4/26/2006 - Sometime in the future, science is going to deliver to us desktop food fabrication equipment. These machines, which I'll call "FoodFabs," will be able to manufacture food items at the touch of a button on your desktop or countertop. It might have the size and shape of a microwave, but instead of punching...

DVD copy warnings, movie studio paranoia, and the effort to turn customers into criminals 4/13/2006 - Pop quiz: What's the first thing you see when you watch a DVD? The answer, of course, is a threat to imprison you or fine you up to $250,000 if you dare copy that movie or display it for non-home use. Movie studios and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) are downright paranoid about the...

Monsanto attempts to claim patent ownership of pigs 9/9/2005 - Piglets worldwide may have a new mother pig… Monsanto Company. In case you haven't heard, Monsanto invented the pig. Well, not all pigs, just the really profitable ones. Nature can keep all the regular pigs, but if this company gets its way, Monsanto will own the prodigies. In February 2005, Monsanto...

Free speech under attack: FedEx fights furniture maker with DMCA invocation, censorship 8/11/2005 - Jose Avila has always been a FedEx fan. He uses Fedex for all his shipping needs because he considers the packaging to be a high-quality, sturdy product, and the shipping service to be superior to competitors. So, when financial hardship inspired Avila to build furniture from FedEx packing materials...

Consumer Alert: Hoodia Gordonii weight loss pills scam exposed by independent investigation 3/26/2005 - Truth Publishing can now reveal the details of an exhaustive investigation into what may be the largest Hoodia Gordonii supplement scam operating in North America: the Pure Hoodia, Inc. company. (This article has recently been updated with even more evidence, see below for details.) In this exclusive...

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