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US Court Sides With Gene Patents
ananyo writes "Gene patents have been upheld in a landmark case over two genes associated with hereditary forms of breast and ovarian cancer. The lawsuit against Myriad Genetics, a diagnostic company based in Salt Lake City, Utah, that holds patents on the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2, has bounced from court to court since 2010. In a 2-1 decision today, a federal appeals court reaffirmed their latest decision that genes represent patent-eligible matter. As noted before on Slashdot, the case will have major implications for cancer researchers, patients and drug makers."
With these patents, does that mean that they own certain types of cancer?
If so, then they should take responsibility of their property and stop being irresponsible and infecting people with their property.
As remedy, I suggest that they fully pay for the treatment to remove their property from their victims and for the stress caused by their carelessness.
No sig. Move along - nothing to see here.
Bill Posters is innocent!
Patenting a gene because you made a detection kit for it is like invading Iraq because Saudis blew up some of your buildings.
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Why didn't anyone patent the business model of patent trolls? Seems pretty lucrative. If just one of them managed to pull it off, they could have sued all the other patent trolls.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
"The one exception would be sequencing tumors themselves to see which mutations they have developed, but that's another kettle of fish."
They can have the genomes of my tumors when they pry them from my cold, dead hands.
Oh, wait.