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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...

Will US Patent Office end gene patent enslavement of the human race? 11/2/2010 - This is one of the most important issues for the future of human civilization: Who owns your genetic code? Based on existing U.S. law, the corporations own it. Right now, over 20% of your genetic code is owned by biotech corporations (this is a fact). But the U.S. Justice Department has just issued...

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...

High-Tech Companies Put Selected Patents in Eco-Patent Commons for Open Sharing 8/9/2008 - Computer giant IBM has announced the launch of a program to place certain patented inventions in the public domain, in the interest of encouraging innovation in the field of environmentally friendlier technology. IBM, Sony, Nokia and Pitney Bowes are currently the only companies participating in...

The Politics of National Health Care Reform: Why no Popular Presidential Candidate can Solve Our Health Care Crisis (transcript) 7/3/2008 - The following is a transcript of Health Ranger Report #16, entitled The Politics of National Health Care Reform, which is available free of charge as an MP3 download at: http://www.naturalnews.com/Index-Podcasts.html Have you ever wondered who is going to win the presidency in the United States and...

Interview With Dr. Wayne Coates: Chia Seeds (Part 2) 4/20/2008 - The following is part two of an interview with Dr. Wayne Coates, who is perhaps the world's foremost educator on chia seeds. Dr. Coates was among the first to grow chia seeds experimentally and later for commercial purposes. An expert in the field of new crops such as chia and jojoba, his career as...

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....

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...

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...

Thailand challenges Big Pharma, threatens to further override patents to give Thai people more affordable generic medicine 2/18/2007 - Thailand has stepped up its challenge to drug companies, saying it will continue to override corporate patents and make generic drugs until the pharmaceutical industry lowers its prices. The south Asian country, which last week broke patents for the HIV/AIDS retroviral drug Kaletra and the blood-thinning...

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...

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...

Junk patents to be revisited by U.S. Supreme Court; ripple effect may be profound 11/29/2006 - The "obviousness" of patents is about to be confronted by the nation's most Supreme Court of law, in a case that could have broad implications for the tech industry. In recent times, software and hardware makers have long complained that a glut of so-called junk patents threatens to disrupt the way...

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...

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