Shrinking the turnaround rhetoric

Nathan Newman nathan.newman at yale.edu
Tue Jun 6 06:26:16 PDT 2000


On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Lisa & Ian Murray wrote:


> >No Patents on Life
> The patenting of life forms must be prohibited in all national and
> international regimes.
>
> How do they plan to get around the Supreme Court's decision in Diamond vs.
> Chakravarty?

That's easy. Diamond was a statutory interpretation, not a constitutional case. If the Congress changes the law, on its own or through a multilateral IP treaty, no more patenting of life.

-- Nathan Newman



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