NaturalNews: "Sanity prevails: US Supreme Court rules
that human genes are not eligible for patent protection"
In Response To: CGI's esu333:
EXPOSED: Angelina Jolie part of a clever corporate scheme to protect billions
in BRCA gene patents (Susoni)
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Hi, Folks - New article by Mike Adams at NaturalNews.com: Sanity prevails: US Supreme Court rules that human genes are not eligible for patent protection http://www.naturalnews.com/040760_Supreme_Court_gene_patents_Myriad_Genetics.html Excerpt: --- (NaturalNews) In a unanimous ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled today that human genes cannot be patented. The ruling invalidates the thousands of patents that have already been granted on human genes, including the patent by Myriad Genetics on the BRCA breast cancer genes which the company says no one else can research or even detect without paying it a royalty. Click here to read the complete ruling. [snip] Had the Supreme Court upheld the patentability of human genes, it would have unleashed a horrifying new era of corporations and universities rushing to claim monopoly patent protection on every gene in the human genome. Virtually no one in the media covered this angle other than Natural News. We warned readers that everything found in nature could then be patented: blades of grass, insects, human ears, eye colors, hair colors... anything encoded with DNA. We also pointed out that Angelina Jolie's carefully orchestrated announcement of a double mastectomy following BRCA gene testing seemed timed to be part of a public relations campaign engineered by the biotech industry to influence the Supreme Court decision. We also challenged Jolie to publicly denounce patents on human genes, which she never did. [big snip to end] --- Full article: http://www.naturalnews.com/040760_Supreme_Court_gene_patents_Myriad_Genetics.html ************************************************************************ |
2 comments:
Do not believe it.
This is the old Texas two-step.
They always wanted to patent synthetic DNA, they just buried it in the question of patenting "natural" DNA.
Now they can legally manufacture and patent human life.
They were never concerned about patenting rDNA.
What they got out of the deal was much worse for everyone than what we were told to fear.
We've all been played.
Human genes can be synthetic too.
The ruling only covers "natural" DNA.
Now they have dialectically coerced the legal and ethical conversation into natural versus synthetic.
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