Supreme Court Considers Patent Eligibility for DNA Gene Sequence
Excerpted from an original posting on AIPLA Newsstand (Powered by Lexology), 4/23/13. Are human genes eligible for patent protection? The Supreme Court heard oral argument in a case considering this question on April 15, 2013 (Assoc. for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., U.S., No. 12-398, oral argument 4/15/2013). The Association for Molecular Pathology argues that isolated DNA is an unpatentable “product of nature.” Myriad argues that the claimed...