LIFESCIENCE: BIOPATENTS: "humanzee"

[Eduardo Kac <ekac@artic.edu>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
http://www.aec.at/lifescience
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SCIENCE, Volume 284, Issue 5423,
dated Jun 25 1999

BIOPATENTS:
Legal Fight Over Patents on Life

Eliot Marshall

Biologist Stuart Newman is trying to get a patent on a
"humanzee"--a chimeric animal made from human and
chimpanzee embryos--in order to prevent other people
from making one and to challenge the rules for patenting
life. Together with Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic
Trends, Newman is
embroiled in a strange legal contest with the government that entered a new
phase last week as the
duo announced that--to their delight--the Patent and Trademark Office had
turned down their patent
application.

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Eduardo Kac
Assistant Professor of Art and Technology
Art and Technology Department
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Avenue, Room 414
Chicago IL 60603
Phone: (312) 345-3567
Fax: (312) 345-3565
E-mail: ekac@artic.edu

http://www.ekac.org

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Research Fellow
Centre for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts,
University of Wales, Newport, UK
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