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Two Nobel Prize winners want to cancel their own CRISPR patents in Europe

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167 points thisismytest | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 03:03 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ixaxaar ◴[17 Nov 24 04:45 UTC] No.42162021[source]▶
What a sad fucking world. I like what China does in the regard to patents. That is exactly what patents deserve.
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levocardia ◴[17 Nov 24 05:15 UTC] No.42162150[source]▶
...steal them from the Americans?
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mattigames ◴[17 Nov 24 07:21 UTC] No.42162535[source]▶
What would be the world if we hadn't "stolen" so many discoveries from China, specifically where would be the USA (gunpowder, print, et al)
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thebeardisred ◴[17 Nov 24 08:57 UTC] No.42162918[source]▶
I assure you. We waited 25 years after the invention of gunpowder before co-opting it.
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1. thaumasiotes ◴[17 Nov 24 09:46 UTC] No.42163118[source]▶
More like 350 years.