Category: Money
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Monsanto, free genes, lucky crops.
In a unanimous decision today, the U.S. Supreme Court backed the agribusiness firm Monsanto on its soybean patents. The justices concluded that an Indiana farmer, Vernon Hugh Bowman, violated the company's intellectual property rights when he refused to pay royalties on unlabeled soybeans he bought that contained genes patented by the company. The court ruled…
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The 90% to the 1% - Logical and fair...
90% of the world's anti-depression medications is consumed by 1% of the world's population... Oups. My bad. I wanted to say that the 90% of the world's wealth is owned by 1% of the world's population... Wait a minute... Isn't that the same? 🙂 😛 😉
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Genome patents, Stupidity patents?
The US Supreme Court has heard arguments questioning whether the human genome can be claimed as intellectual property. The case relates to a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2009, and centres on whether companies should be able to patent genes. US authorities have been awarding patents on genes to universities and medical companies…
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"Art", money, Dubai...
The Dubai Festival of Literature is now in its fifth year and attracts some of the world's best known authors and poets. [1] Two hundred events run throughout the week-long event and range from performances and debates to workshops. For the first time there is also poetry in the desert under the blanket of stars.…
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Gang rapping: A "priviledge" of G20...
Another woman - this time a tourist from Switzerland - was raped in India. The woman was camping with her husband at a village in Datia district on Friday during a cycling trip when they were attacked by seven or eight men. The assailants overpowered the husband before gang-raping his wife. [1] You see, it…
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