{"id":37810,"date":"2013-06-14T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/sanity-from-scotus-and-intellectual-property-law-inconceivable.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:56:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:56:25","slug":"sanity-from-scotus-and-intellectual-property-law-inconceivable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/14\/sanity-from-scotus-and-intellectual-property-law-inconceivable.html","title":{"rendered":"Sanity from SCOTUS and Intellectual Property law? Inconceivable!"},"content":{"rendered":"
But true!<\/p>\n

The Supreme Court ruled (unanimously!) that a company could not patent the concept of a test for a naturally occurring gene it had isolated and identified\u00a0because, basically, that's nature and basic science,<\/i> not an invention.<\/p>\n

Bravo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Supreme Court: Patents Require ‘An Act of Invention’<\/a>
\n UPDATE: Just hours after the Supreme Court ruled today, at least one company announced it would be offering genetic testing on the BRCA genes for $995\u2014barely one quarter of the approximately $4000 Myriad charges for the same tests.\u00a0\n <\/p>\n

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But true! The Supreme Court ruled (unanimously!) that a company could not patent the concept of a test for a naturally occurring gene it had isolated and identified\u00a0because, basically, that's nature and basic science, not an invention. Bravo. Supreme Court: Patents Require ‘An Act of Invention’ UPDATE: Just hours after the Supreme Court ruled today, … Continue reading “Sanity from SCOTUS and Intellectual Property law? 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Medical patents? Really? Because this doesn't sound like something that could end well for anyone except Big Pharma. 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