Pending resolution: the question of who owns DNA.
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Pending resolution: the question of who owns DNA.
With the emergence of the Human Genome Project and its private counterparts, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has begun receiving applications for the patenting of genes and genetic sequences. Earlier patent decisions regarding similar scientific advances limited patents to organisms "made by the hand of man," which would seem to remove discovered genes from patent protection. But many appl...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.109-a30