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Realize or Relapses On April 10, 1970 President George Washington signed a bill that laid out the bases for our current American Patent System. It proclaimed that every inventor was entitled to patent protection as long as the inventor and the invention complied with the ordinance set by the United States Constitution. For one reason or another, society seems to have neglected parts of this declaration in our present time. With regard to Wil S. Hylton’s “Who owns this body,” Mark Dowie’s “God’s and Monsters,” and Robert Winston’s “Playing God” a reader can further understand how society has disregarded present regulations of the U.S. Patent Office and broken several amendments in the process. An 1817 court ruling determined that nothing “injurious to the well-being, good policy, or good morals of society” (Dowie 49) shall ever be patented. Although today, American civilization has allowed the near complete opposite to occur, by permitting the patenting of cells. There is absolutely nothing moral or ethical about someone being able to own another person, even if it is only a microscopic portion. To argue patentability on the grounds of scientific advancement; is to rationalize Butler 2 slavery