[Sussex] Technical Effect Patent Workshops...

[Andrew Guard]

> Found this on El Reg:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/04/patent_workshops_announced/
>
> Summary: The Patent Office is holding a series of workshops around the
> UK to define 'technical contribution'.
>
> The Patent Office says: "Participants will be shown a variety of
> definitions for 'technical contribution' and invited to work in groups
> to test these against a range of innovations. They will also be welcome
> to propose definitions of their own." The results will be sent to Lord
> Sainsbury.

Is that same Lord Sainsbury who family business Sainsbury's which owns a
lot of paitents?

[quote]
When he was made Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury resigned as Chairman of
the Sainsbury's supermarket chain and put  into a blind trust major
investments in two plant genetics-related investment companies (Diatech
Ltd and Innotech Investments Ltd). Innotech has a substantial  stake in a
firm called Paradigm Genetics involved in a joint GM-related venture with
Monsanto. Between 1996 and 1999  Diatech was granted three patents for GM
products that are said  to have the potential to make millions of pounds
in royalties.
[/quote]
http://www.gmwatch.org/profile1.asp?PrId=116
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