Archive for the ‘Law’ Category

This Essay Breaks the Law: Michael Crichton pleads for patent reform

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Next week the Supreme Court will hear arguments in LabCorp versus Metabolite, an interesting case that visits the patent controversy in the United States. Are test result correlations patentable? Michael Crichton provides his opinion.
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Plagiarism and Blogging Vigilantes

Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

This is an incredible story. What is even more incredible is the reaction to the story (see the comments, including a “fake” comment by someone pretending to be the student and another one that may or may not be from “her” lawyer.) Then, after you read about all that, click on “Main” [...]


Ban Pet Cloning!?

Wednesday, February 9th, 2005

Crazy talk!

California Assembly Member Lloyd Levine is calling for a ban on pet cloning. Why?

Pet cloning is unregulated.
Animal shelters are filled to capacity.
“Who knows what’s going to happen if these things get released into the wild?”
Vulnerable [...]