They overturned the Patent on the BRCA gene, so other companies can test for it. Other companies haven't been able to work with this gene to create their own test.
They kept the Patent on that particular test that included a particular strand of created DNA. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, Vermont > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
