PATENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION: United States HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON PATENTS AND THE CONSTITUTION: TRANSGENIC JUNE 11, JULY 22, AUGUST 21, AND NOVEMBER 5, 1987 Serial No. 23 Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary 78-497 U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office JACK BROOKS, Texas KF27 COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY PETER W. RODINO, JR., New Jersey, Chairman ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin BARNEY FRANK, Massachusetts HARLEY O. STAGGERS, JR., West Virginia BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland J857 1987i HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York BILL MCCOLLUM, Florida WILLIAM E. DANNEMEYER, California M. ELAINE MIELKE, General Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON COURTS, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin, Chairman MIKE SYNAR, Oklahoma BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California HOWARD COBLE, North Carolina MICHAEL J. REMINGTON, Chief Counsel THOMAS E. MOONEY, Associate Counsel CONTENTS Dr. Rene Tegtmeyer, Assistant Commissioner for Patents, U.S. Patent and A panel including Dr. Thomas Wagner, Edison Animal Biotechnology Center, Ohio University, Athens, OH; John A. Hoyt, president, Humane Society of the United States, accompanied by Andrew Kimbrell, Esq. and Michael Fox, DVM; and Jack Doyle, director, Agricultural Resources Project, Envi- Cy_Carpenter, president, National Farmers Union, and on behalf of National Farm Organization, American Agriculture Movement, Coalition to Save the A. Ann Sorenson, assistant director, natural and environmental resources division, American Farm Bureau Federation, accompanied by James C. Terell, assistant director, national affairs division, American Farm Bureau William H. Duffey, general patent counsel, Monsanto Corp., on behalf of the Reid G. Adler, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. Robert P. Merges, Julius Silver Fellow in Law, Science and Technology, Dr. Leroy Walters, Kennedy Institutes of Ethics, Georgetown University Margaret Mellon, manager, Biotechnology Project of the National Wildlife Dr. Alan Smith, vice president, Integrated Genetics, Framingham, MA Jeremy Rifkin, president, Foundation on Economic Trends Stuart Huber, president, Wisconsin Farmers Union, Madison, WI. 419 419 462 484 306 |