The ACLU wrote Who Owns Your Genes? You Do. "On Monday, federal district court Judge Robert Sweet made history by issuing the first ruling ever that human genes can’t be patented. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has been issuing patents on human genes for over 20 years, giving private corporations, individuals, and universities exclusive rights to those genes and to test, study, or even look at them. This is the first time a court has said that this practice is unlawful."
Some sense being added to patent law.
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