The Online Laboratory of Kevin Zelnio » DNA Barcode http://www.zelnio.org Deep Sea Biology | Systematics & Taxonomy | Science Writing | Music Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:23:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Patenting Systematics Revisited http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/14/patenting-systematics-revisited/ http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/14/patenting-systematics-revisited/#comments Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:13:44 +0000 Kevin Zelnio http://www.zelnio.org/?p=116 Alex, an entomologist at the fabulous Myrmecos blog, was also infuriated by the news piece by Pennisi (subscription required) in the latest issue of Science. His take was slightly different than my take on it a couple days ago. Alex is most upset about the pending Microsoft patent claim on, according to the language of the [...]]]> http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/14/patenting-systematics-revisited/feed/ 0 Patenting Systematics http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/08/patenting-systematics/ http://www.zelnio.org/2009/08/08/patenting-systematics/#comments Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:39:23 +0000 Kevin Zelnio http://www.zelnio.org/?p=96 An interesting news piece came out today in the most recent issue of Science. Elizabeth Pennisi reports that systematists are up in arms over pending patents on methods that have been in place for dozens of years. Such as a novel

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