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=NSF Ethics Education: Sample Wiki Problem=

Problem Description: You are a graduate student researcher in the university's crop sciences biotechnology lab. You are presently working on a corporate-sponsored research project. Yesterday you received a cease-and-desist letter from the attorneys representing a small biotechnology company claiming to be the exclusive licensee of U.S. patent 4,736,866. The company states you are infringing this patent because you are using a type of bacteria in your lab "whose cells contain a recombinant activated oncogene sequence".

Applicable Laws and Principles
Discuss the specific factual elements of the problem statement that relate to the legal and ethical analysis to be conducted?

Issues
Discuss the legal and ethical issues that will be analyzed.

Applicable Laws and Principles
''Cite and describe all relevant and applicable laws, rules, and ethical principles involved in this problem.''

Analysis
''Describe how these laws, rules, and principles are most likely to be interpreted considering the specific relevant facts. Analysis can be supported by legal references as well as references from the open literature and popular press. ''

Conclusion
State the answer to the question posed in the problem statement.