X-Message-Number: 15237
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 14:57:26 -0500
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Subject: Licensing of vitrification methods by CI
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Charles Platt wrote (message 15229):

   CI has no god-given right to adopt procedures that are protected by
   patents. CI can use these procedures if, and only if, the patent holders
   grant a license. Ettinger has been reminded of this repeatedly, but has
   always refused to mention it, preferring to imply that CI will adopt the
   results of other people's research at its own discretion.

Is this actually a possibility?  That is, is it a possibility that the
holders of the patent would refuse to grant CI a license to use these
techniques, supposing of course that CI was willing to pay the
price they were asking?

(Naturally, an authoritative answer of `yes' would have interesting
implications.)

dan

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