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Science 25 June 1999:
Vol. 284. no. 5423, pp. 2067 - 2069
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5423.2067a
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News of the Week

BIOPATENTS:
Legal Fight Over Patents on Life

Eliot Marshall

Biologist Stuart Newman is trying to get a patent on a "humanzee"--a chimeric animal made from human and chimpanzee embryos--in order to prevent other people from making one and to challenge the rules for patenting life. Together with Jeremy Rifkin, president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, Newman is embroiled in a strange legal contest with the government that entered a new phase last week as the duo announced that--to their delight--the Patent and Trademark Office had turned down their patent application.

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