{"id":11303,"date":"2012-03-22T03:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11303"},"modified":"2012-03-22T03:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T08:00:53","slug":"from-the-duh-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11303","title":{"rendered":"Follow That Law!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/21\/business\/justices-reject-patents-for-medical-tests-relying-on-drug-dosages.html?_r=2&amp;hp\">Justices Back Mayo Clinic Argument on Patents<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his opinion for the court in the case, Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, No. 10-1150, Justice Breyer started with first principles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEinstein could not patent his celebrated law that E = mc2[sic]; nor could Newton have patented the law of gravity,\u201d he wrote.<br \/>\n\u2026<br \/>\nIn general, Justice Breyer wrote, an inventor must do more than \u201crecite a law of nature and then add the instruction \u2018apply the law.\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEinstein, we assume, could not have patented his famous law by claiming a process consisting of simply telling linear accelerator operators to refer to the law to determine how much energy an amount of mass has produced (or vice versa),\u201d he wrote.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if some savvy lawyer would interpret the specific mention of <em>linear<\/em> accelerators to mean that cyclotrons are to be treated differently\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices Back Mayo Clinic Argument on Patents In his opinion for the court in the case, Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, No. 10-1150, Justice Breyer started with first principles. \u201cEinstein could not patent his celebrated law that E = &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11303\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}