Pro Moore

Injustly caused mr. moore to travel from ca to seattle for treatments that use
blood, bone marrow for patented cell line
How the cell line was patented by dr. golde
Mr. moore deserves some financial compensation
Blood stolen under false pretenses
Moore never consented to have these body parts used for economical or
research gain
CA 51.3D.20 Drs need to dispose of body parts within 24 hours

Defendant

Mr Moore consented to have his body part removed. Once removed, they are
no longer his
Mr. Moore did nothing to create the cell line
The Dr. put in all of the work to make the cell line, so obviously, he can patent
and get all the financial gain
Without Drs work, the product wouldnt exist
The millions of skin cells lost every day, we dont lay claim to those, similarly
to Mr. Moores medically, legally removed spleen.

Moore Rebuttal

Skin cells: skin cells are dead. We dont use those for profit
They are irrelevant.
They spleen is what matters here
Excessive cytokine production, not normally in hairy cell lymphoma patients
This made Moore exceptional, not like all other cancer patients
Yes, the cell line wouldnt exist without Golde, but Moores spleen was also
exceptional, and essential to the creation of the cell line
Product

Doctor Rebuttal

Skin grafts are allowed

How much extra cytokine produced?
How do we know someone else doesnt produce that many cytokines?
You say its Moores cells, when do they become not his cells?
o Doctors lawyers say
Every cell in the human body is replaced every 7 years. Every cell in
the body has died several times, so theoretically, the spleen cells
would eventually not been his anymore

Moore

The law says the spleen must have been destroyed/disposed of after 24 hours
Does Dr. Golde have evidence ?
In response to what makes the cells so special

More cytokines
Many other patients have blood and bone marrow sampled in cancer
treatment
o So Moore really is unique in his cells production of cytokines
Do you have evidence of more than 24 hours? Yes, because you patented the
cell line.
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Defense

The trips were implied he never asked that

Cell lines were descended from the actual cells
o Metaphor to human children
Cells patented were not taken from his body
Those cells are descended from the cells taken from his spleen

Moore

Children of your children have free will

But would that cell line still exist if Moore had never had his spleen removed?

Defense

Extra cytokines were not specific to him

He was accessible to Doctor and thats what made him special
Drs expertise is what made it happen
Cell line was never in Moore

Moore

How do you know that if Moore didnt come along, Doctor Golde would have
ever created the cell line?
If you took cells from the spleen that is keeping part of it
No matter of how small

Cross examination:

Was there a splenectomy consent form?