Lori Andrews on Patent Madness on NPR

Lori Andrews, a bio-con that we disagree with a lot on, on a topic that we agree substantially on: “Can Patents Prevent Scientific Progress?”  She spoke on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, December 1, 2006.  She has just published a piece in Science magazine that says the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is too liberal in awarding patents for the basic building blocks of science, and science suffers as a result.”  Andrews teaches law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law in Illinois, and co-directs the Institute for Biotechnology and a Human Future.

- Marketplace: Supreme Court Hears Patents Case (Nov. 28, 2006)

-  Controversy Brews over Patenting Laws of Nature (March 24, 2006)

- India Considers Drug-Patent Law (March 23, 2005)

- Patenting Of Human Genes (Dec. 28, 1999)

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