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The Financial Times' Take on Gene Patenting

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The staid Financial Times (London) has an article today on the gene patenting debate, and while there are things to criticize in it, the article (perhaps predictably) takes a carefully measured, dispassionate (and welcome) tone ("Who steals the gene from off the common"; free registration required). The paper's conservative bona fides are established on its website: First published in 1888 as a four-page newspaper, the Financial Times' initial readership was the financial community of the City of London. The Financial Times soon established itself as the sober but reliable "stockbroker's Bible", with its only rival...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).