STANFORD UNIVERSITY 
STANFORD. CALIFORNIA 9005 
JFFTCE OF THE VKS P*£2DEVT 
XX. IUBUC AFFAXU 
July 9, 1976 
Dr. Donald S. Fredrickson 
Director 
Public Health Service 
National Institutes of Health 
Department of Health, Education and Welfare 
Bethesda, Maryland 20014 
Dear Dr. Fredrickson: 
Thank you for your letter of July 6. I was pleased to know, 
as indeed Dr. Perpich had told me, that you have begun a careful 
review of patent policies with respect to recombinant DNA. 
Everyone here at Stanford agrees with you about the importance 
of the issues involved. It is for that reason, of course, that we 
have taken some pains to consult fairly widely about the wisdom and 
propriety of our proposed course of action and that we have held 
off making irrevocable decisions until consultative processes had 
a chance to work. Need I add, therefore, that we have a more than 
ordinary interest in both the substance and the timing of your delib- 
erations at NIH? Let me repeat my earlier offer to participate in 
those deliberations, or to arrange for participation by others at 
Stanford. Let me also urge that you act with both deliberation and 
dispatch. While decisions here are not imminent, they are not all 
that far away — in fairness to the people with whom we are dealing. 
Finally, I appreciate your offer to keep me informed of the 
progress of your policy review. I gladly accept the offer, and I 
shall undertake to do the same with respect to developments here. 
Robert M. Rosenzweig 
Vice President 
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