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if you allow the patent on
this microbe we argued
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it means that without any
congressional guidance
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or public discussion
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corporations will own
the blueprints of life.
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When they made the decision
we lost by five to four
:14:17
and Chief Justice
Warren said
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sure some of these
are big issues
:14:21
but we think this
is a small decision.
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Seven years later
the U. S. Patent office issued
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a one sentence decree
:14:28
you can patent anything
in the world thatÂ’s alive
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except a full birth
human being.