[pp.int.general] Criminal patents

[Anouk Neeteson]

For those without access to the previous link, this is what it is about :
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/myriad-genetics-wins-australian-bid-to-patent-human-genes-1-.html

http://www.aclu.org/free-speech-technology-and-liberty-womens-rights/association-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics

latest news :
http://www.patentdocs.org/2013/03/is-lack-of-preemption-the-key-for-the-supreme-court-to-decide-in-myriads-favor.html
On Mar 27, 2013 9:44 a.m., "Daniel Riaño" <danielrr2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark Skolnick (Myriad Genetics) is coming back into court once again
> to defend his company's exclusive rights over clinical tests and
> scientific research over two mutated genes of human DNA (BRCA1 and
> BRCA2), responsible of some form of breast cancer. This time it is the
> American Civil Liberties Union who is raising the vital question of
> whether is it possible to patent molecules found in nature
> (specifically in our bodies). The case against Myriad Genetics and its
> partners will be held at the US Supreme Court on April 15. Mark
> Skolnick and friends will presumably start one new jeremiad about the
> need to defend the right to patent genes in order to foster scientific
> innovation in the face of the fact that (aside the point that their
> research was aided by public founds as well) their copyrights are
> making clinical testing and research expensive, thus pulling apart
> patients from a cure (and from their money)
>
>
> http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/6e93c6fa-9180-11e2-b839-00144feabdc0.html?ftcamp=crm/email/2013327/nbe/Analysis/product#axzz2Oj1Ov4U6
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