As Stephen Marshall says, "I really wish the trade people discussing the need for stronger intellectual property protection would deal with the problem of stupid patents like this - they would have more credibility in arguing their case if they weren't trying to protect a fundamentally corrupt and broken system." Why the outburst? The U.S. patent office has granted US Patent 7,805,252 "Systems and methods for designing and ordering polynucleotides" to DNA Twopointo, Inc. - a patent "equivalent to the patent office issuing a patent to someone for displaying characters in English and then allowing users to edit them with a keyboard."
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