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[aviator300]

I am not sure where public money and patents comes into this. When he was earning his PHD, he identified that phylum Nitrospira were the active nitrite-oxidizing bacteria in aquatic systems. The information from his research is freely available in peer-reviewed journals, and you can download the PDFs off of Dr. Tim's site. Anyone who wants to can go out and breed whatever nitrospira they want and put it in whatever aquatic system they want, and they can also use the scientific phylum name Nitrospira however they please.

 

AFAIK, Dr. Tim's patents were developed when he was working as the Chief Science officer at Aquaria Inc. That is not public money. The specific bacteria identified in the patent, which were sufficiently isolated from it's natural environment, with a specified and described industrial use, and specified and described method for use. The information is not commercially exploitable until the patent expires, but in exchange the information is freely available due to the patent system, which is how the patent system is supposed to work.

 

If the complaint is whether it is ethical to patent naturally occurring bacteria (or naturally occurring genes isolated from tumor cells that were harvested from an unwitting medical patient), that is a different matter!

Thanks for the further clarification. I didn't mean to hijak this thread with all this Dr Tim information, but rather just point out that His name product and BioSpira are the same stuff but Dr Tims is twice the price.

[farkwar]

Wiki makes no mention of Dr Tim regarding the discovery or naming of nitrospira.

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrospira

 

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrospirae

 

Google patents has no patents registered to Tim Hovanec

 

http://www.google.com/?tbm=pts#tbm=pts&q=tim+hovanec

 

Listing for Timothy Hovanec

http://www.google.com/patents/CA2316081A1?cl=en&dq=nitrospira&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4BUTVNugLsbwiwL354CIBg&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAjgK

[khuzdul]

Dr Tim did not discover the phylum or name it, that happened before him! From what I have read of his paper from his PHD work, he identified specific species of Nitrosomonas (the phylum was already known of and named before) bacteria which were active in aquarium biofiltration, if they oxidized ammonia, if they oxidized nitrites, if they were freshwater or saltwater, what PH they best thrived in.

 

google search ininventor:"Timothy A. Hovanec" for his patents...