On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 10:51 PM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:
Yeah, so far the Supreme Court in the US has consistently treated DNA as a chemical entity rather than as an information carrier. So patentable, but not copyrightable.Someone should really write an original piece of poetry, and encode it into DNA along with a copyright notice...
Related:
For extra credit: come up with a codon usage table so each codon choice encodes a few bits of information. Then design a functioning enzyme that simultaneously encodes a poem as well. Then patent and copyright the heck out of it, and release it into the wild. Stand back and watch the IP system implode ;-)
Hehe. Patenting something releases the patent documents into the public domain. I'm not sure if you could patent a novel enzyme without including the DNA sequence in the patent.
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