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16 J. Marshall J. Computer & Info. L. 971 (1997-1998)
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Patented Monkey: Patentability of Cloned Organisms

handle is hein.journals/jmjcila16 and id is 979 raw text is: EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING TO HIDE EXCEPT ME AND MY PATENTED MONKEY:' PATENTABILITY OF CLONED ORGANISMS I. INTRODUCTION Imagine having a twin sibling. Now imagine having twenty identi- cal twin siblings. Initially this sounds like something straight from the pages of a George Orwell novel.2 Rather, this incredible scientific achievement comes not from the pages of Orwell's Animal Farm, but from the pages of the highly respected scientific journal Nature.3 In the February 27, 1997 issue, Dr. Wilmut and his colleagues reported the suc- cessful cloning of a living, breathing animal.4 A lamb named Dolly was the first animal cloned from the mammary cell of a 6-year-old ewe in the last trimester of pregnancy.5 Dolly is no longer alone. In the July 23, 1998 issue of Nature two groups of scientists reported the successful cloning of healthy and fertile female mice.6 Scientists at the University of Hawaii and an interna- tional team assembled from the United States, Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom implemented a technique similar to that which pro- duced Dolly and applied it not to farm animals, but to laboratory mice.7 The short gestation period of mice will dramatically enhance the pros- 1. See JOHN LENNON & PAUL MCCARTNEY, Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey, on THE BEATLES WHITE ALiBuM (EMI Records 1968). 2. See GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 (1986). See also GEORGE ORWELL, ANIMAL FARM (1946). (Orwell wrote several novels dealing with a variety of psychosocial, political, and humanis- tic themes). Two of the more famous satirical lines in ANIMAL FARM are: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others and Four legs good, two legs bad. Id. at 14, 62. 3. See I. Wilmut et al., Viable Offspring Derived from Fetal and Adult Mammalian Cells, 385 NATURE 810 (1997). This group from the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland reported for the first time in the February 27, 1997 edition of the scientific journal NATURE, the successful cloning and birthing of a live sheep. See id. 4. Id. at 810. 5. See id. 6. See T. Wakayama et al., Full-Term Development of Mice from Enucleated Oocytes Injected with Cumulus Cell Nuclei, 394 NATURE 369 (1998). 7. See id.