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Gene Patenting Debate Continues - Round Three

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, National Public Radio's Science Friday, which is broadcast nationwide as part of NPR's Talk of the Nation, examined the issue of gene patenting. The debate over gene patenting reignited in May as a result of the Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office case, in which a group of patients, physicians, academic researchers, and medical societies filed suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Myriad Genetics, among others, over several patents claiming human BRCA1 and BRC2 genes and methods for detecting mutations in these genes to diagnose a...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 18, 2009 (boomark / email).