Patentable subject matter

The denial of ambiguity and uncertainty by the psychologically rigid subject is precisely what allows for authoritarian personalities to arise. Since the psychologically rigid subject organizes her experiences in terms of rigid categories, she is incapable of dealing with people who do not necessarily fit the mold. The psychologically rigid person either denies that certain phenomena resist or are resistant to rigid categorization or they react hostilely towards whatever exception there is to…

Introduction: The lab experiment on Fabrication and Microwave Frequency Measurement of a ring Resonators was about finding the relative dielectric constant and the response of a ring resonator. These values are found by using a ring resonator and setting a frequency signal to the ring to resonate the signal. This lab also shows how to make the ring resonators from paper or any type of electric device from fabrication. Fabrication is used to print electric devices such as printed circuit boards.…

The fact of this case is the Association for Molecular Pathology along with several other medical associations, doctors and patients sued the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and Myriad Genetics to challenge several patents related to human genetics. Myriad Genetics, Inc. is a genomic research firm whose mission, among other things, is to learn what various sequences of DNA in the human genome actually do. In 1994, Myriad’s scientists made an extraordinarily useful discovery…

artificially creating a bacterium which could degrade crude oil , breaking it down to multiple components. The patent filed by Chakrabarty was under Title 35 U.S.C Section 101. It was a patent for people who discovered or created products or composition of matter that is useful. In other words, it was a patent about an oil-eating bacterium which consist of 3 claims. The first two claims was with regards to the method of making the bacterium as well as the application of the bacteria to oil.…

consider global markets; this will allow the company to manage detrimental meanings in a foreign language. Secondly Frogspawn must identify patentable subject matter to make sure it is patented before competitors with similar subject matter. This will eliminate other companies from the total market share. In doing so however, Frogspawn needs to make sure that, “patentable inventions are not shared with others or published before filing a patent application. In order to meet the…

In Diamond v. Chakrabarty Case (16th June, 1980), the Supreme court has ruled that businesses that develop modified organisms should be able to preserve their property rights by patenting such organisms. This is because the court believed that the innovator of a new idea shoud be recognized and deserved some credit when others used. Moreover, the court argued that the worthwhile idea can benefit society as a whole if it was widely available. (Princeton University, n.d.) Actually, the law for…

growing field since the 19th century. In the United States today, “Genetically Modified Organisms” are regulated under the 1986 Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology. As stated in the Library of Congress legal topic report on the subject “the enforcement of GMO regulation is pursuant to the existing statutory authority regulating conventional products, with a focus on the nature of the products rather than the process in which they are produced.” Therefore the United States…

A Murder Most Foul: The Death of the Atanasoff-Berry Computer The brainchild of the brilliant John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Edward Berry, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, had many enemies. Were these enemies what ultimately lead to its untimely demise? The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is claimed by many to be the first modern digital electronic computer. Whether or not this is true; at the very least it was a precursor to ENIAC, the computer that most people who are not on the side of the…

first introduced to the public.2 However, the discovery of recombinant DNA in nature a decade later helped to quiet some of the unrest.2 After the United States Supreme Court issued a decision that "a live, human-made microorganism is patentable subject matter," the public became even less hesitant to embrace the technique.2 The Court’s decision effectively meant that forms of life can be patented if there is a man-made element to them.2 What had once been viewed as dangerous became a way…

When using information systems, it is essential to ask, “What is the ethical and socially responsible course of action?” A MODEL FOR THINKING ABOUT ETHICAL, SOCIAL, AND POLITICAL ISSUES Ethical, social, and political issues are closely linked. The ethical dilemma you may face as a manager of information systems typically is reflected in social and political debate. One way to think about these relationships is given in Figure 4-1. Imagine society as a more or less calm pond on a summer…