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Supreme Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents
thomst sends this quote from an Associated Press report:
"The Supreme Court on Monday threw out a lower court ruling allowing human genes to be patented, a topic of enormous interest to cancer researchers, patients and drug makers. The court overturned patents belonging to Myriad Genetics Inc. of Salt Lake City on two genes linked to increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer. The justices' decision sends the case back down to the federal appeals court in Washington that handles patent cases. The high court said it sent the case back for rehearing because of its decision in another case last week saying that the laws of nature are unpatentable. In that case, the court unanimously threw out patents on a Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., test that could help doctors set drug doses for autoimmune diseases like Crohn's disease."
didn't Levi patent Genes years ago or did he just invent them?
I got to the chocolate box before you, that's why the hard ones have teeth marks.
Now the patent trolls can't sue me for violating a megacorps' 'patent' because I'm still breathing!
Crap! I was told to resolve the "jamstar7 is still breathing" problem before the Supreme Court made their decision - now I'm not going to get paid!
#DeleteChrome
Now the patent trolls can't sue me for violating a megacorps' 'patent' because I'm still breathing!
We are now free to mutate without fear of lawsuit. To the Transmogrifier!!!
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
We are now free to mutate without fear of lawsuit. To the Transmogrifier!!!
Scientific progress goes 'Boink?'
Or is that only when you turn the Transmogrifier on its side?
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese