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NPR's "Science Friday" to Focus on Gene Patenting

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

By Donald Zuhn -- On December 11th, National Public Radio's Science Friday, which is broadcast nationwide from 2:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern time as part of NPR's Talk of the Nation programming, will focus on the issue of gene patenting. In particular, the program will examine 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...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 11, 2009 (boomark / email).