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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (7459)	3/14/2000 4:42:00 PM
From: Jim Willie CB	Read Replies (3) of 35685

a comment on biotechs anyone buying biotechs generally after midFebruary, now underwater today's Clinton announced goals of US sharing valued human genome information most expected research-related results to be copyrightable I have long questioned this one, bigtime yeah, I am gonna copyright long eyelashes yeah, you want cure to diabetes, gonna have to pay up the govt needs to resolve this in the courts pronto too much at stake, need encouragemt & protection for hard work and discovery I have long maintained three curses to biotechs: 1. questionable legality of copyrighted info on humanoids 2. fickle arbitrary unpredictable draggedout shitful policy practiced by FDA 3. when #1 or #2 hit, the whole sector suffers today factor#1 became evident all manner of biotechs sold off, as a scare struck widespread even biotechs having clear protected IPR were hurt an anecdote for factor#2 last summer a friend bought shares in Sunrise they perform corneal surgey via lasers they had a 12-month track record of successive patient vision restorations with evidence in hand, they paraded to FDA they had been told that 12 months of evidence was necessary for approval they were denied, as FDA changed its mind to 18 months Sunrise lost 75% value next day I hate biotechs, with scores of other tech opportunities dont get me wrong, good luck to all who invest in them p.s. did anyone know one cannot copyright math or statistics for isolated methods? you can however copyright a procedure sequence I tried to purchase my own Quality Control Mfg Procedure from numbnut Digital Equip Corp management morons in 1982 / Jim

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