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Authored by: jesse on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 07:29 AM EDT |
And you can patent transistors, and even collections of transistors.
I don't think DNA patents what the molecule does, just the molecule itself.
The problem is in the discovery - A naturally occurring molecule (or fragment of
a naturally occurring molecule) should NOT be patentable.
Manufacturing a specific DNA fragment that does only one thing, and happens to
have exactly the same structure of a naturally occurring fragment should also
not be patentable; though the process of creating it might be (as long as that
also doesn't occur naturally).
The next level problem is that current patents on DNA attempt to cover all
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Authored by: Ian Al on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 11:07 AM EDT |
Mind you, this is the discovery sort of invention. They find out by trial and
error what parts of the sequence should be and do and then try to repair broken
sequences.
It's not as though they invented anything. They don't even know how their
invention works.
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Ian Al
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