The company was based in Cupertino, CA, and was headed by Bill Steingarten during the events of the novel. Primarily competed with fellow genetic engineering company, International Genetics Technologies (InGen), Biosyn tried to keep up with their competition through their head of product development, Dr. Lewis Dodgson. Dodgson himself had a checkered history, and extended such a reputation under his work at Biosyn, including incidents of introducing a modified form of the rabies virus to farmers in Chile without the latters’ knowledge or consent. Dodgson also involved himself in corporate espionage schemes for Biosyn that involved recovering developing technology from rival companies and then re-engineering the technology in such as way as to avoid a lawsuit. Two notable incidents occurred