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Human Gene Patent Challenged In Australian Court

Posted by kdawson on from the if-they-can-patent-leather dept.

dov_0 writes "Following a successful patent challenge in the US, an action is underway in Australia to have patents on two breast cancer genes declared invalid."

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  1. May be missing the point of the patent system by Drakkenmensch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Aren't patents supposed to protect inventions rather than just discoveries of something that exists already? Or are they claiming that they created those breast cancer genes in labs and forcefully injected it in their test subjects?