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IP: genetic copy protection
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 20:42:14 -0500
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:49:23 -0800 To: cypherpunks () toad com From: David Honig <honig () sprynet com> A patent on a means to produce seeds which germinate, but which produce plants whose seeds are sterile, was reviewed in Science, p 850, 30 Oct 98 vol 282. The trick is that the seeds are genetically engineered, and the seeds are 'activated' by an antibiotic (which acts like a signal). The purpose is to copy-protect other engineered genes in the organism. US pat 5,723,765 David Honig From: Jeff.Hodges () stanford edu X-Office: Pine Hall Rm 161; +1-650-723-2452 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 13:35:28 -0800 Sender: hodges () Wind Stanford EDU X-UIDL: 8564e309b60c3536c7620df729217f79 This item seems legit. Here's the ibm patent dbase page on it.. http://patent.womplex.ibm.com/patlist?icnt=US&patent_number=5723765&x=25&y=9 ..although I can't seem to find the cited blurb in Science online.. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol282/issue5390/#browse ..tho that may be a feature of the online version. Jeff _____________________________________________________________________ David Farber The Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems University of Pennsylvania Home Page: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~farber
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