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Can genes be patented? The USC finally rules.
« on: June 17, 2013, 09:22:39 am »
Finally.

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The Court held that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but man made cDNA is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring.


The price of women getting tested for the breast cancer gene should now plummet. 
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