Who Owns Your Genes? You Do.
I’ve written two previous blog articles on this subject: ACLU Challenges Patents on Human Genes and A Thank You to the Plaintiffs, the ACLU and Judge Sweet. And, as the debate ensued over health care…
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A Thank You to the Plaintiffs, the ACLU and Judge Sweet!
In May 2009, I wrote an article about the Patent Office and its practice of allowing the patent of human genes, specifically, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer. The Patent…
ACLU Challenges Patents on Human Genes
Image via Wikipedia Got this one in my email today … and I have to agree with their stance: There is something fundamentally wrong with companies being able to own the rights to pieces of…