Hopefully the US supreme court will make a sensible decision and declare that genes… 1


Hopefully the US supreme court will make a sensible decision and declare that genes cannot be patented. While I'm increasingly opposed to patents in general if we are going to give them out for anything related to genes it should be limited to mechanisms for detecting genes not the genes themselves

US Supreme Court to decide whether human genes are patentable

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3712896/united-states-supreme-court-myriad-genetics-patent

US Supreme Court to decide whether human genes are patentable
The United States Supreme Court will be taking another look at a previous ruling that granted Myriad Genetics, Inc. patents on two gene mutations that are tied to hereditary breast and ovarian…

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