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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 10:43 AM EDT |
Not sure if this is Open Access but see Rosenfeld
and Mason(Genome
Med. 2013 Mar 25;5(3):27)
Pervasive sequence patents cover the entire human
genome.
That essentially says that many patented sequences might
actually
match a different place than the patent says. That
really implies that many
patents could be too vague or give
false positives (not good for certain
actions).
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| Authored by: Wol on Wednesday, April 03 2013 @ 02:52 PM EDT |
Thing is, we *made* the transistor. It does NOT occur naturally in nature. And
the patent (supposedly) says "this is how we *make* this *new* thing called
a transistor".
With DNA it's completely different, as I understand it. First of all, we didn't
make (as in manufacture, I know our bodies make it) DNA. What the labs did was
ANALYSE it.
And they have patented the results of the *analysis*. What the patent, in
effect, says is "we have discovered that this sequence of bases exists in
nature, and we have made a land-grab for any and all uses of that
sequence". That's just not a patent-eligible claim!
Oh - and I've seen reports now that they are allowing claims on short sequences
- so short that they are pretty much bound to occur in multiple genes so if you
claim the sequence from gene A, you will also get gene B, C, ... through to
something like gene XYZ!
Cheers,
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