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Want to Patent Natural Biological Material? Try Australia -- Maybe

2015-12-23 14:04:17| Biotech - Topix.net

If you want to patent non-modified biological material - say, genes as they occur in nature -- you're largely out of luck in the U.S. In 2013, the Supreme Court invalidated two patents for breast cancer-related genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2 , on the basis that naturally occurring DNA segments can't be patented. The USPTO's eligibility guidance has followed suit.

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