Solomon Islands: NIPS Welcomes Abandonment Of Patent Application Involving SI Samples

Solomon Islands: NIPS Welcomes Abandonment Of Patent Application Involving SI Samples   The Network of the Indigenous Peoples-Solomons (NIPS) welcomes the abandonment of a US patent application that uses genetic samples from Solomon Islanders, in a case that raises major ethical questions. According to the USPTO’s Patent Application Information Retrieval system, US based lawyers representing Taiwanese scientist, Dr. Ko Ying-Chin filed an express abandonment application on April 01st, 2011 at...

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