In a message dated 11/7/2003 7:44:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Very simply, we are being excluded,
yet we are the "owners."  Our property is being sold right from under us.  We
are the gold mine and they are the claim jumpers.  Notice the claims in this
patent about iron-deficiency in premies--lactoferrin will resolve that
problem.
Valerie,

If you were in charge of straightening out the whole breastmilk component
patent mess, what should be done, or could be done, to correct these situations?

ie: What laws would have to be enacted?

Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
LCAGW Co-VP
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the Fairfax County suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway

www.BestBreastfeeding.Info

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