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Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, April 16 2013 @ 02:00 AM EDT |
Discovering a law of nature, however useful, is judicially excluded subject
matter and has been for over 100 years.
Otherwise, you might need a patent licence when the penny drops.
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Regards
Ian Al
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 17 2013 @ 06:24 AM EDT |
They existed in nature long before that patent, and they are
an arrangement of molecular units, not a process.
Now, if someone invents a new way of mapping genes, that may
be patentable, but not the genes themselves.
Granting patents on existing genes is like granting a patent
on the topology of the United states to one map maker which
would exclude other map makers from the right to measure the
topology of the US for themselves and publish maps based in
that.
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