Can a Company Claim Your Genes?
Congress is weighing a bipartisan proposal to allow patents for naturally occurring things like genes and organisms.
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Post Ruling, Gene Patents Roll on, as Does the Tech
The Supreme Court’s ruling last month to strike down gene patents is unlikely to have a widespread impact on the genetic field, as is already being made evident by new lawsuits from Myriad Genetics against...
Genes Can’t Be Patented, Supreme Court Tells Myriad
"A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated," the Supreme Court has ruled today unanimously. The 20-page decision written by Justice Thomas added...
