X-Message-Number: 15239
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 20:57:47 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: Re: Licensing of vitrification methods by CI

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001  wrote:

> 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?

Since I am not affiliated with the patent holders' business (other than as
a very minor shareholder) I can't predict corporate policy.

I can however try to clarify what I was getting at, which is an underlying
principle. The principle, to me, is that if you spend millions of dollars
developing a better way to cryopreserve organs, you have the right to
control the result. It seems a little misleading (to me, anyway) when
someone who has voiced repeated public skepticism about the research
suddenly turns around and says he "expects" to have access to the benefits
of it.

It would be presumptuous of me to speculate on this topic any further.

--CP

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