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Gene Patenting: Australian Potpourri

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- Gene patenting, and proposed bans on the practice, have garnered several newspaper reports and responses from professional groups around the world. Australian Senate Panel Debates Gene Patenting The Community Affairs Committee of the Australian Senate is investigating whether genes should be patentable in that country, according to a December 12th report in The Australian ("Patently tricky dispute drags on: who owns your genes"). The debate was sparked, according to a report, by a letter from Genetic Technologies (GTG), a Melbourne testing lab, to eight public pathology laboratories regarding its rights to testing the BRCA1 and...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).