I'm not contributing a lot to this conversation, but I am getting some good answers (like Ed Aus') to my questions. Just how the hell[1] do you patent a gene? I've got about a bunch(tm) in my body. Am I infringing on someone's patent?
It seems to me that the human genome project id discovering what we're all made of. I cannot see how this is patentable. We've been around for a few hundred thousand years. Is this not prior art? If any one has any links to how this is being justified I'd love to see them.
Patents like this make you wonder about our country. Even if the patent office is using fresh-outs stuff like this should never squeek by. Any one with a little smarts in the patent field have any info on prior use?
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I'm not contributing a lot to this conversation,
but I am getting some good answers (like Ed Aus')
to my questions. Just how the hell[1] do you
patent a gene? I've got about a bunch(tm) in my
body. Am I infringing on someone's patent?
It seems to me that the human genome project
id discovering what we're all made of. I cannot
see how this is patentable. We've been around
for a few hundred thousand years. Is this not
prior art? If any one has any links to how
this is being justified I'd love to see them.
[1] pardon my french
Patents like this make you wonder about
our country. Even if the patent office is
using fresh-outs stuff like this should
never squeek by. Any one with a little
smarts in the patent field have any info
on prior use?