The US Biotech company collosal biocheness not only wants to bring back a extinct big animal back to the planet, but also pateks it. As the US Output of Technology Review has researched, Texas would like to register “invention” in the US patent and trademark office to get special rights for generated elephants with Start-up Mammoth DNA.
Siege -bayocinesWhich refers to itself as a “de-expert company” (for example: “revival company”), which expects to generate a herd of animals such as mammoths, which can be exposed in large nature reserves, such as in Siberia. There they should edit the soil with their huge legs so that the permafrost floors remain according to the collosal. This is to prevent greenhouse gases from escape during global warming. According to commercial consideration, money is earned with carbon credit, ie certificate for climate compensation. Ben Lam, CEO von Kolosal, insisted in an email that the owner of the patent on animals “will control us how this technique will be implemented, especially when managing the first discharge of animals in nature”. The company wants to control here.
The colloom strategy remains speculative
Lem said the colloom intends to register further patents on other “transgenic” animals, such as genetically modified wolves, which the company has also announced. Colossal put about 20 DNA changes in the extinct shade wolf into gray wolves by genetic e-editing. The company praised the work as the first success of its D-Axunction processes, but criticized the criticism quickly.
But the business plan is real. Colosal has raised over $ 400 million and invests in many gene editing and reproductive technologies, making the company’s strategy speculative. However, Lem has indicated that each new mammoth should generate up to $ 2 million in the fund from climate compensation. Also you want Earn money with tourismAs soon as the company succeeds in bringing animal species like Dodo that people want to see.
Why are there patents on genetically modified animals?
Lam also says that usually 20 years of patents “provide a clear legal framework during this important transition phase, while extinct species are inhabited before”. It does not work everywhere. However, a patent has been allowed on genetically modified organisms in the United States since 1980, when the Supreme Court approved a patent on an oil -consumption bacteria. At that time, the judges said that the patent law can increase everything made by humans.
It opened the door to patent on animals, in which especially for cancer -propion oncomhouse research, in dark aquarium fish and recently pigs have also been replaced, so that they make organs for transplantation. Collosalyss Mammat Patent Application With its details of modified cells and whole animals, “such biotech patients have been presented in the current standard,” the right-wing experts tell the partners in how Edgar, Law Firm McCaki, Wurhes and Size in the Moines, Iowa.
Germany Tickets: Public Transport Association is insisting on new safety standardsThe project of Kolosal is also groundbreaking in other ways. This is a new attempt to secure the rights to use extinct DNA. If he works, it can justify an unprecedented legal monopoly on wild animals. One of the targets of the collosal is to give rhinagen species a characteristic for their original houses. “It can set an example for intellectual property rights” if a company patentes a artificially produced variants of old species. These are not only questions of science. “Who in itself owns the de-expert?”
Originally, the method works as follows: Researcher: DNA receives DNA from chronic bones or museum copies and then adds the existing type of its ancestors to a closely related, already existing type of biotechnology. So far, no changed Paciderum has been born – intervention with the development of elephants is still difficult. But in April, Kolosal made headlines when the company claimed that it had created a wolf species, shadow wolf, who died 13,000 years ago. One of the cute white cannids named Rimus appeared Time magazine time title pageDue to which the English word “extinct” was crossed.
Criticism of shadow wolf: wolf in wolf fur
However, several scientific experts rejected the Kolosal’s claim that this was the first successful comeback of an extinct species. He reported that animals are actually gray wolves with an unusual fur color. Your genome has only parts of extinct wolves’ DNA. Two types differ from several million DNA letters.
However, the company takes steps to secure intellectual property rights for almost all aspects of its works – even those names that are available to its animals. Technology review determined that trademark rights for Some especially hairy mice The registered, which was presented by the company at the beginning of the year and was presented as proof of progress in the direction of wool hair. One of the brand entries wants to secure the name “Mamos” for the sale of “plush toys and plush toys”. The name “Wulli Mouse”, which covers the use of the word as a figure for shirts, jackets and sportswear.
Lem says that Kolosal has no plans to open a gift shop currently. But he wants to protect the “brand identity” of animals. “It makes me think people establish an emotional relationship for these animals, which is really very encouraging,” they say. “We have to make sure that we can protect our brand.” However, the existence of a patent application on Mammath -as elephants can continuously face public criticism. Should a company elephant, the world’s largest land animal, protect itself, even if they have DNA changes? “There are people who are unhappy about it, but also a pattern we have seen in the United States for some time,” the legal questions related to biotechnology say Alta Charo, who will advise the colloxal on moral questions.
Revive and restoreAn organization in Socialito, California, which is committed to reviving the hiking pigeon, believes that birds should not be controlled by intellectual property claims. The organization spokesman Elizabeth Bennett says, “Reviv and Restore Ri -CONSTEMPORI will not patent animals.” If the organization should succeed in re -settle the birds, they should be preserved according to the existing laws for wild animals, called Bennett.
Also patented with universities
Even some genetic engineers, who were involved in the Mammath Project launched at Harvard University over ten years ago, have given mixed opinions while patenting extinct animals. Kori Smith, who is now working in the biotech industry, helped prepare an earlier patent application in genetically modified elephants as a student, which was submitted by the university in 2021. “I am not sure animals must have a owner,” Smith says. “I always believed that they could not be patented.”
During his media talks, the collosal was careful not to reveal the exact genetic changes that creating new wolves, and explained to their own advisors that they had to keep secret for the causes of “intellectual property”. This prevented external scientists from being able to fully evaluate the use inside. But it would also have enabled the collosal to submit information to the patent office, because already open information cannot be patented for the public.
When asked by email, the lam initially did not want to say whether Colosal had recorded a patent for transgenic wolves similar to “Mammath”. This is a delicate question, because such a patent will mean that the cannid is the goods and no longer recovered the wild organisms that fix the “their legitimate location in the ecosystem”, as the company actually says.
“We pursue a well thought out -consicatory approach in the context of intellectual property that brings scientific progress into harmony with permanent business practices,” emphasizes lam. It is important to understand that all security of intellectual property is limited to some technical methods and innovations that we have developed – and not for the genetic heritage of extinct species.
What can happen under wool hair pattern?
However, the pending wool hair mammath patent draws a different picture. It was first presented and entitled in 2023 “Volharmut-specific gene variants and compositions that include them”It includes a list of 29 claims, which aims to control a long list of giant genes and animals, from which it is a genetic code in the body. This means that this patent application does not refer to a certain method or technique, but its purpose is to secure the rights of new living things with genetic changes that change your hair, body size, your immune system, your cold tolerance and even your cognitive skills. “Every animal with Woolen Mammath Jean comes under demands,” a legal professor at Urbana-Shampain University, the University of Illinois.
The patent office will probably check the application properly before approval and can also reject it. During a patent examination, inventors usually have to limit the desired commercial rights for the elements that are really “new and useful” – and they also have to keep themselves from legal prohibitions about patent capability which are very different from the country to the country.
“I can imagine that very few of these patent claims are given in their current form,” says Sherkov. “But you will be a clue which aspects of the revived species can be patentable.” Ultimately, the reason for this is that the collosal is trying to patent elephants with ancient DNA, simply lies in the fact that its new and uncomfortable business plans in the field of de-expenses technology have a little more confident.
“In the initial stage, companies sometimes bet on long phenomena,” says Andy Tang, partner of Draper Associates, one of the risk capital companies, who have invested money in the collo. Tang, who does not speak for the company, believes that it would be better, in the event that the Wolenharmats become important to create an entry barrier for potential partners. He says: “I think it is cheaper to invest in patent in an initial stage.” Being active is better than reactive.
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