________________________________________________________________________________ Woman Files Patent Application on Herself LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman has become the first person to attempt to patent herself, the national patent office said Tuesday. ``I can confirm that we have received an application with the title 'myself' from Donna Rawlinson MacLean,'' the patent office's Brian Caswell said. Britain's Guardian newspaper said MacLean, a poet and casino waitress from Bristol in western England, was angered at the patenting of gene sequences by businesses. ``It has taken 30 years of hard labor for me to discover and invent myself, and now I wish to protect my invention from unauthorized exploitation, genetic or otherwise,'' Maclean told the newspaper. Caswell said the full details of application GB0000180.0 would be published in 18 months. ``It is not really worth patenting something unless you make a lot of money from it,'' he added. # distributed via : no commercial use without permission # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net ________________________________________________________________________________ no copyright 2000 rolux.org - no commercial use without permission. is a moderated mailing list for the advancement of minor criticism. more information: mail to: majordomo@rolux.org, subject line: , message body: info. further questions: mail to: rolux-owner@rolux.org. archive: http://www.rolux.org