Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent

In a ruling with potentially far-reaching implications for the patenting of human genes, a judge struck down a company’s patents on two genes linked to an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

The American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York joined with individual patients and medical organizations to challenge the patents last May: they argued that genes, products of nature, fall outside of the realm of things that can be patented. The patents, they argued, stifle research and innovation and limit testing options.

The patents, they argued, stifle research and innovation and limit testing options.

BRAVO!

Patent the derived inventions as they should. The science is just the start point.

The rest of the article is just Tea Baggery from Utah.