It appears that the bio-tech industry lost a major battle recently when a U.S. District court ruled that genes are products of nature, not inventions and thus are not patentable.
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Update to “‘Myriad Genetics’ Legal Woes: Profits, Medical Access and Corporate Moral Responsibility”
Posted on Tuesday, April 6th, 2010Myriad Genetics’ Legal Woes: Profits, Medical Access and Corporate Moral Responsibility
Posted on Thursday, February 25th, 2010
In the Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office case, are genes, isolated from a human DNA sequence, sufficiently new and useful to be patented under federal patent law?
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