A Palm Springs, San Diego & Orange County Law Firm Looks at the Worldwide Patenting System and It’s Harmful Effect on Medical & Biotechnology Research

If you are employed as a scientist or as a company do research anywhere in California, including cities where biotechnology and other medical science is being studied or where research takes place, especially the areas around cities such as Irvine, Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, La Jolla, Riverside, Fullerton, San Francisco, Santa Barbara and other cities where there are universities or large research projects taking place in the U.S. and throughout the world, you know that patent laws and patent licensing is acting as a barrier to medical and biotechnology research and preventing advances in science.

 

It doesn’t take a California patent attorney or lawyer to say how the world’s patent system is today acting as a barrier to medical and biotechnology research that could solve many of today’s worst diseases and preventing breakthrough treatments, medicines and even new seeds for better crops.

 

A new report has come out after a seven year study and confirmed what most patent licensing lawyers, medical researchers and biotechnologists have known for years. The patent system in force worldwide is broken and preventing breakthroughs in science.

 

Without a means for sharing information, blocking patents are causing delays in developing advances in cancer medicine treatments and in the development of new food crops.

 

The report performed by a Canada based partnership cited as examples of medical advances being delayed as those of HIV/Aids drugs and cancer screening tests.

 

Of concern to scientists is an increasingly bare medicine chest of new life-saving medicines that are critical not just to the developing world but to the industrialized nations as well to address disease. New food crops are also lagging behind that could help address hunger.

 

And while stem cell researchers apparently patent the most, they collaborate least according to the report.

 

What happens is that “blocking patents” act as barriers to research and advances in biotechnology that could advance cancer treatment, new medicines and new crops.

 

When biotech firms race to file a “fortress” of patents around newly discovered genes, research by their competitors is effectively blocked.

 

Another example given by scientists is work on genes that cause breast cancer in European countries that has been held up by patents held on specific genes by one biotech company in the U.S. With patients in European countries unable to meet the cost of certain cancer screening tests, they have been effectively denied access to such tests.

 

A recommendation of the report is that companies should be allowed to form “patent pools” where they could cross-license their patented technologies without losing royalties from their patents. It is also recommended that governments develop other public and private partnerships to conduct joint research.

 

The criticism of the current patenting system is that it acts more as a barrier than as an incentive to research and the development of medical or other biotechnological breakthroughs.

 

When a patent office grants dangerously broad patents, entirely new areas of research, such as in the field of nanotechnology, can be cut off.

 

So long as intellectual property and patent laws act as a barrier from others utilizing and expanding upon one scientist’s research, the laws will prevent scientists from making advances that can benefit mankind. This lack of sharing is preventing biotechnology from becoming the field that it once promised. 

 

If you have a patent legal issue in Irvine, Orange County, La Jolla, San Diego, in the Inland Empire, Los Angeles, Palm Springs or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your Newport Beach Patent Lawyer and your Palm Springs Patent Attorney. Be sure to hire a California law firm with patent and licensing lawyers who can serve areas such as Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Palm Desert, Anaheim, Irvine, Newport Beach, Carlsbad, Corona del Mar, Laguna Beach, Huntington Beach, Santa Ana, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fullerton, Del Mar, San Diego, Orange County, San Luis Obispo, Buena Park, La Jolla, Oxnard, Ventura, La Quinta, and Santa Barbara so you are properly represented and get the compensation you deserve.

 

If you need to file for a patent or have an patent legal issue of any kind, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.sebastiangibsonlaw.com  and learn how we can assist you. You can also call us to speak directly to Sebastian Gibson on the phone about your legal matter.

Which Ranking System In College Baseball Is The Right One?

I’m kind of new to following college baseball. I’m noticing that there are lots of number/ranking systems. For example, I’ve seen CSU Long Beach ranked as #14, #10, #17…which one is the “right” one??

Cameroon Has a Healthcare System

The Republic of Cameroon is a unitary republic of central and western Africa. It borders Nigeria to the west, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Republic of the Congo to the south.

Cameroons coastline lies on the Bight of Bonny, part of the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean. The country is called Africa in miniature for its geological and cultural diversity.

Natural features include beaches, deserts, mountains, rainforests and savannas.

The highest point is Mount Cameroon in the southwest, and the largest cities are Douala, Yaound, and Garoua.

Cameroon is home to over 200 different ethnic and linguistic groups.

The country is well known for its native styles of music, particularly makossa and bikutsi and for its successful national football team.

English and French are the official languages.

Cameroon is diverse with predominantly French cooking in hotels. Hotels remain opened so long as there are guests. If you visit Buea or Limbe, you can visit Atlantic Beach hotel which is a stone throw from the Botanical Garden. The hotel has a black and white night club. Most hotels have night clubs within the hotels. There are shopping centers, fishing centers and even hunting parks. You need a special license and special instructions before you can hunt in Cameroon. In Yaounde, the story is different.

Cameroons healthcare system is fairly developed in Douala and Yaounde. Hospitals in these cities have nationals who are trained both in Cameroon and overseas. There are also many expatriates working in various private hospitals and clinics in the cities. Elsewhere rural NW region of Cameroon, there are dilapidated buildings constructed by the former colonies of the country that have been abandoned. A typical case is Presbyterian General Hospital Acha Tugi that has medical equipment dating 1964 when the hospital was constructed.

Common diseases included malaria and cardiovascular diseases and HIV/AIDS. Infectious diseases are rampant in rural areas especially where there is neglect as evident by the lack of roads and other basic living conditions such as clean water supply, food and electricity.

This is a rich culture, but as most of rural Cameroon regions is plagued by diseases and suffering. Maybe the best the world can give them is hope through this healthcare initiative, which has a potential of revolutionizing how we assist humankind suffering all over the world. Maybe from sorrow and pain and grief rises the sun on a forgotten region.

Palm Desert, San Diego and Orange County California Intellectual Property Attorney Explains the Worldwide Intellectual Property System

If you are an inventor, a writer, a musician or a designer, it doesn’t matter if you live in Murrieta, California, San Diego, CA, Mission Viejo, Carlsbad, La Jolla, Westminster, Orange County, Anaheim, Orange, Irvine, Escondido, San Luis Obispo, Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Huntington Beach, Temecula or Palm Springs, Palm Desert, or Indian Wells, CA, the law is the same with regard to intellectual property in California. But why are patents, trademarks and copyrights are considered “Intellectual Property?” A good patent lawyer, trademark attorney, copyright lawyer or intellectual property law firm can tell you.

Actually it is the inventions that are patented, the symbols or words that are trademarked and the works of literature, music, film and the like that are copyrighted that are considered to be the intellectual property, but the question is really what makes them either intellectual or property?

Some, if not many of the works that are copyrighted are anything but intellectual, but their copyrights are extremely valuable nonetheless.

A funny looking symbol that becomes a trademark is perhaps more artistic than intellectual, but that symbol can be worth millions.I

nventions are really more inventive than intellectual, but if they work, they can be a benefit to mankind.

So, is it right that any of these things should be considered the property of one and not all of us?

What gives one person the right to protect a set of words or an invention as their own property?

Well, what the law does is reward people for their intellectual efforts. Whether that effort is to paint a beautiful painting, to write a wonderful piece of music or to create a device that makes it easier or more energy-saving to do something, that person deserves to be rewarded. And what the law does is give that composer or inventor a number of years to make a monetary reward from his or her efforts.

Some people question why a composer or inventor still has to go to great cost or effort to then market their works before they get any reward. Why aren’t they simply paid for the creation? Why do they still have to become marketing and advertising geniuses? Why must they even pay filing fees or an attorney to have their works and inventions protected.

The answer is simply a question. Who would pay these writers and inventors? The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office doesn’t have money to pay these people. Nor does the Library of Congress.

The system that is worldwide for protecting the works of our most artistic and intelligent people is not without fault, but it is the best system devised to date, despite the many efforts by pirates and infringers to steal the rewards that should go to these writers and inventors.

Patents, trademarks and copyrights can be extremely valuable. The copyright infringement of a book not long ago resulted in a seven figure settlement. Trademark infringement and patent infringement cases routinely result in settlement in the millions. And patents can be licensed or sold outright for tens of millions of dollars and sometimes more.

If you would like more information on intellectual property, need defense in a lawsuit, or wish to patent an invention or design, trademark a slogan, symbol or phrase, or copyright a literary work, photograph or a musical composition as an example, we invite you to call us.

If you have an intellectual property matter in Orange County, San Diego, in the Inland Empire, Palm Springs or anywhere in Southern California, we have the knowledge and resources to be your San Diego Intellectual Property Lawyers, and Orange County and Anaheim Intellectual Property Attorneys. For this reason, be sure to hire a California law firm with copyright lawyers who are ready to serve you in many areas such as Costa Mesa, Anaheim and Pacific Beach so you are properly represented when you need to be.

If you have an intellectual property matter and need to know your rights, call the Law Offices of R. Sebastian Gibson, or visit our website at http://www.SebastianGibsonLaw.com and learn about your rights and options. You can also call us to speak directly to Sebastian Gibson on the phone about your legal matter.

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Day 27: Public School’s Food System

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