With regard to the possibility of patents requiring royalties on giving birth, see the account by a regular commenter, 6, on the PatentlyO blog, concerning a meeting at the PTO where Ananda Chakrabarty (of Diamond v. Chakrabarty fame) discussed his plans for genetic engineering. The comment is the second comment on this PatentlyO article.

With regard to Myriad's claims, and similar claims, they say that the claims read on DNA, isolated from the human body. This is the pretext for arguing that they are not patenting “human genes”.

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