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U.S. SUPREME COURT PRAISED FOR ITS CORRECT RULING BANNING THE PATENTING OF HUMAN GENES. The June 2013 unanimous 9-0 decision of the Supreme Court banning the patenting of human genes got it exactly right says the UKs The Guardian. We agree. In the US, the Patent Office which had implemented the tripartite patent policy was granting thousands of patents over isolated human DNA...By 2005 over 20% of the human genome was the subject of US patents...The US Supreme Court held that the isolation of DNA from a human being does not result in something that displays markedly different characteristics from any found in nature...Human DNA regardless of its form, belongs to no one. No one invented it. And no one should be able to patent it. Heres background on precedent setting AMP v. Myriad ruling. Jim en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_for_Molecular_Pathology_v._Myriad_Genetics
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:48:46 +0000

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