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US District Judge Rules Gene Patents Invalid
shriphani writes "A US judge has ruled that Myriad Genetics' breast cancer gene patent is invalid. Hopefully this will go a long way in ensuring that patents on genes do not stand in the way of research. From the article: 'Patents on genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer are invalid, ruled a New York federal court today. The precedent-setting ruling marks the first time a court has found patents on genes unlawful and calls into question the validity of patents now held on approximately 2,000 human genes.'"
Wasn't the Human Genome Project just used to map the human genome? I wasn't aware that they did "research and medical breakthroughs".
It's the difference between reading a book and writing a book.
Great, GPL has infected something else.
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What you wrote was an opinion.
You can say 'there is no infringement' but you don't decide that, the law/a judge does. Period. Any other notion is simply utterly disconnected from reality.
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Conversely if you take the money that goes to fat upper management. massive marketing departments, and stockholder profits and plow it back into research you probably end up with more cures. The free market isn't always the most efficient way of accomplishing things despite what some of its adherents like to think.
In pharmacy, it seems pretty clear cut that nowadays it's among the worst. Pretty much no pharmacy lab does real research any more because there's too little ROI. They mostly repackage molecules and research marketing instead.
Creating a new market segment is much more profitable than creating a new cure.
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