X-Message-Number: 11730
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:14:23 -0700
From: Olaf Henny <>
Subject: Practice your friendly bark

Mike Darwin wrote:


"My dog Cannibal may be the first to get it,
and he unarguably deserves it more than the vast majority of the rest of
you."

Stephen W. Bridge commented:

1.  Determining which discoveries are covered by patents that 21st Century
Medicine or BioPreservation have been granted and thus require a fee.
2.  Determining which discoveries are not patentable for one reason or
another and can be used without paying a fee.
3.  Determining which discoveries involve patents by other research
companies or disputed patents.  These would require separate negotiations
of varying complexity.
4.  What price will the owning company place on acquiring the permission
to use the patents?  The seller has to set a price and then a buyer must
be willing and able to pay that price.  This process is more complex in
cryonics than in most negotiations.  If the research to develop and
produce a product costs, say $3 million -- but it will only be used 3-4
times per year (or fewer) over the next several years -- then how do you
set a price that will be bearable for both sides?  And this process will
probably include *several* products and techniques like this.
5.  Which original solutions or equipment or techniques must be purchased
from Mike and his partners directly and which must be purchased through
outside vendors?
6.  How much training is available to teach any new methods which must be
learned for administering the new discoveries to a patient?
7.  Which discoveries can be simply added onto an existing protocol and
which will cause other major changes?

The way I see it, we have only two unlikely choices:

-  Come up with a few million Dollars an lots of work  or...
-  Practice wagging our tails and bury our noses in Mike Darwin's lap.

Best, 
Olaf

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