[3DEM] Protein Tomography (TM)

[Michael Radermacher]

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I don't understand this. I could imagine that this term has been used in the
literature before. If you do a simple google search you find for example
"fluorescent protein tomography". I find it unacceptable if scientific terms
become trademarks and I am strongly opposed to this. Does anybody have any idea 
what one can do about this? 

     Michael Radermacher


Quoting Pawel A Penczek <Pawel.A.Penczek at uth.tmc.edu>:

> 
> 
> That's the first time I hear of what is in essence a scientific term 
> being trademarked.  What about a legal counteraction?
> 
> Pawel Penczek.
> 
> Joachim Frank wrote:
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> > Sidec Technologies, a company that Ulf Skoglund has helped start in 
> > Sweden, has trademarked the term "Protein Tomography", according to an 
> > article in "Genetic and Engineering News" (Vol. 25, no 19, Nov 1, 
> > 2005).  This is a disturbing piece of news.  Will we one day not be able 
> > to use "electron tomography", "single-particle reconstruction", "angular 
> > refinenment" freely because of unreasonable claims of a startup company?
> > 
> > --Joachim Frank.
> > Joachim Frank, Ph.D.
> > Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
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