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PostPosted: Wed 09-19-2007 9:51PM 
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I understand patenting a method or invention, but a natural phenomenon...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/19/opini ... chton.html

I didn't know Crichton wrote this kind of stuff

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heh. wasn't there an episode of Batman TAS where the Joker poisons all the fish to have his face, then demands that the city of gotham pay him royalties for every fish sold? seems like the same concept to me.

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amd2800barton wrote:
heh. wasn't there an episode of Batman TAS where the Joker poisons all the fish to have his face, then demands that the city of gotham pay him royalties for every fish sold? seems like the same concept to me.


Haha, kinda. I guess this would be more like if someone said that the fish had the face of Joker, or that fish could be poisoned, they would have to pay him royalties... Or simply the mere thought of it..

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