87. Law

Maybe it's time to revive my blog. Have been absent for too long. Anyway, I shall complete this post first, since I wanted to since a while back.

So, what's law from a science student's perspective. Correction, my perspective. Remember moral? With all the stupid memorizing and application?

Yeap, that's what I think it is. Only 100, heck, make it 200 times harder. Even though the exam is open book (which can be seen as worse or better, since one spends unnecessary time looking up for stuff), the application question and such is really murderous.

One of the law exam questions goes like this (not exact quote):

You are a scientist working on a new strain of rice which is more drought tolerant, and grows faster. You intend to spread this strain for free as a means to help countries with food problems (oh, how noble). After a long period of research, you finally obtained a major breakthrough. As you and your team are preparing to submit a paper in Nature, you were informed of a pending patent of a rice strain very similar to yours by a commercial biotechnology company. You suspect there was a leak of information, the prime suspect being a student who helps as a lab assistant to you as he also works part time in the biotechnology company. Above all, you did not get him to sign a confidentiality agreement (what a foolish 'you'). Can you still achieve your aim of spreading the strain for free? Can you stop the patent from being granted? Your university wants you to obtain IP protection for the strain and commercialize it. Can you do that as well?

I ran outta time and couldn't complete it, heh. 75 mins for 15 questions. Not very doable indeed.