Gene Patents

Are DNA Patents Doomed?

| Posted 04.03.2012

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By Ricki Lewis (Click here for the original article) DNA is special. Unlike other body parts, it holds information. Even discarding a blood spot o...

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Battle Over Gene Patents Most Likely Headed to Supreme Court

Simone Rose | Posted 10.21.2011

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Simone Rose

Courts need to be the keepers of the Constitution. But the Federal Circuit has failed its duty in the current battle over the patentability of isolated genes and gene sequences that are crucial to the fight against breast and ovarian cancer.

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I Want My Body Back: Why Corporations Shouldn't Hold Gene Patents

Amy Boesky | Posted 11.17.2011

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Amy Boesky

It turns out my body isn't completely mine. One of my genes--the one that's had the biggest impact on my life--is owned and controlled by a biotech firm in Utah.

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Gene Patent Trial Begins: Biotech Researchers Sued Over Ownership Of Gene Discoveries

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — A judge on Tuesday weighed whether a lawsuit should proceed that seeks to invalidate a company's patents on two genes linked to an in...

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