>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 11:47:29 -0700
>To: biotech_activists@iatp.org
>From: Mark Lipson <mark@ofrf.org>
>Subject: USDA Discussion Paper on "Terminator" patents
>
>USDA staff have just prepared a "discussion paper" on it's co-ownership of
>several patents for the "Control of Plant Gene Expression", also known as
>the "Terminator" patents. This paper and the questions it poses will be on
>the agenda for the USDA Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology
>(ACAB) on July 26&27, in Washington, D.C. Public comment to the Advisory
>Committee is solicited in today's notice in the Federal Register. Here is
>the URL for the discussion paper:
>
>http://www.usda.gov/agencies/biotech/downloads/paper72000.html
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