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Letter: Letters: When do I pay?

Published 27 February 1993

From STIG VALSTAD

When will I have to start paying royalties for using the patented genes
in my body? Or, is it only when I use the genes to make a new human being
I will have to pay?

I think it can be proved that the gene Francis Collins and Lap-Chee
Tsui have patented (This Week, 23 January) existed before they started working
on it and therefore is not patentable.

Stig Valstad Skogn, Norway

Issue no. 1862 published 27 February 1993

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