Japan Bioindustry Says No to Patents on DNA Fragments

[James Love <love@cptech.org>]

Subject: Japan Bioindustry Says No to Patents on DNA Fragments
   Date:  Thu, 24 Jun 1999 00:14:33 -0300
  From:  David Hathaway <hathaway@netflash.com.br>
    To: (Recipient list suppressed)

4.      Japan Bioindustry Association Say No to Patents on DNA Fragments

    On April 7, 1999, the Japan Bioindustry Association, which represent
300 major Japanese corporations, 60 research institutes, and 1500
individual
members, submitted its opinions on the issue of patenting DNA fragments.
    For the English text, visit
        http://www.jba.or.jp/katudou/topics/news990419e.html
and about the organization look into
        http://www.jba.or.jp/profile/index_e.html

    Also, June 17, 1999, JPO issued a new trilateral report on the
comparative study on biotechnology patent practices: Patentability of
DNA fragments.  For the full text, go to
        http://www.jpo-miti.go.jp/saikine/tws/sr-3-b3b.htm

Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:38:08 -0400
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Subject: PATNEWS: Global patent news: Japan, Europe, Korea, Russia, WTO,
India
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