{"id":16942,"date":"2013-06-13T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=16942"},"modified":"2013-06-13T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T15:19:48","slug":"can-you-patent-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/13\/can-you-patent-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you patent DNA?"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. Not if it is natural.<\/p>\n

In a decision that could have broad-reaching effects on the future of science and medicine, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that:<\/p>\n

\u2014 “A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated.”<\/p>\n

\u2014 But, synthetically created “strands of nucleotides known as composite DNA (cDNA)” are “patent eligible” because they do not occur naturally.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n

Our system of patents is badly broken, I think. About the only people I’ve ever heard say otherwise are … wait for it … patent lawyers.<\/p>\n

At least this one little part of it is fixed now.<\/p>\n

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Photo Credit: Josh*m<\/a> via Compfight<\/a> cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. Not if it is natural. In a decision that could have broad-reaching effects on the future of science and medicine, the Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that: \u2014 “A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated.” \u2014 But, synthetically created “strands of … Continue reading Can you patent DNA?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4pg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}