On 6/13/2013 1:50 PM, John McKown wrote:
However, cDNA can be patented. That is genetic material that has been "customized" by human. They just cannot patent "nature invented" genes.
This looks like a gold mine for lawyers. Company XYZ files for a patent on modified DNA, and some clerk at the Patent Office requests proof that their sequence does not occur in nature. The P.O. might even require testing the DNA of every human individual, and perhaps some non-human ones, as proof.
Or company RST gains a patent for a cDNA sequence, builds a Billion dollar empire based on applications, only to have some pimply teenager enter the Intel (or whatever it is these days) Science Fair showing the sequence to occur naturally in a Costa Rican tree frog <g>
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