Lawsuit rekindles gene-patent debate

New evidence rekindles the hormone therapy debate.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(2) Background In a now well-publicised series of events during 2002 and 2003, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) and other randomised controlled trials (RCTs) designed to examine the links between postmenopausal hormone therapy (HT) and the prevention of chronic disease were terminated prematurely. The estrogen plus progestin arm of the WHI was ter...

The software patent debate

It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemer...

The gene patent controversy on Twitter: a case study of Twitter users’ responses to the CHEO lawsuit against Long QT gene patents

BACKGROUND The recent Canadian lawsuit on patent infringement, filed by the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO), has engendered a significant public debate on whether patenting genes should be legal in Canada. In part, this public debate has involved the use of social networking sites, such as Twitter. This case provides an opportunity to examine how Twitter was used in the context of...

Questions and Answers Concerning the Lawsuit Around

Jacobson, M.Z., M.A. Delucchi, M.A. Cameron, and B.V, Mathiesen, Matching demand with supply at low cost among 139 countries within 20 world regions with 100% intermittent wind, water, and sunlight (WWS) for all purposes, Renewable Energy, 123, 236-248, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2018.02.009 , https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/CombiningRenew/WorldGridIntegratio...

New York nurses win wage-fixing lawsuit.