Federal court rules human genes can be patented

[rambone]

Monsanto should put this new ruling to good use.



Federal court rules human genes can be patented

The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled in a 2 to 1 decision Friday that human genes can be patented because the DNA extracted from cells is not a product of nature.

 

[NYFelon]

DNA extracted from cells not a product of nature.

wait, what?

 

[IndySSD]

DNA extracted from cells not a product of nature.

wait, what?

This is pretty much my reaction as well.... guess I'm going to have to actually read the story....

HOLY CRAP!! It was actually the PATENT OFFICE arguing against this and the courts said F U...

The lawsuit was filed by the Public Patent Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, who claimed patents on human genes violate the First Amendment and patent law because genes are "products of nature."
The court disagreed.

 

[NYFelon]

This is pretty much my reaction as well.... guess I'm going to have to actually read the story....

HOLY CRAP!! It was actually the PATENT OFFICE arguing against this and the courts said F U...

Yeah, I just read it. Their argument is because they segmented a portion of the genome, that it is no longer a natural product?

Well hell, I'm going to patent the electron. After all, for electrical current to flow you must force electrons out of their valence shells of one atom, into those of another ad infinitum to create that current. Since I have to "cleave" these electrons from their natural atom, they are no longer a product of nature, right?

BRB. Patent Office.

 

[Denny347]

I knew my genes were worth something. Time to finally patent them.

 

[Fletch]

Seriously folks, read Michael Crichton's [ame="http://www.amazon.com/Next-Harper-Fiction-Michael-Crichton/dp/0060873167/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1312316247&sr=8-1"]Next[/ame]. Yes, it's science fiction, but he gets into the legal ramifications of such decisions and describes better than I can how horribly wrong this can go.

 

[eldirector]

Yeah, I just read it. Their argument is because they segmented a portion of the genome, that it is no longer a natural product?

Well hell, I'm going to patent the electron. After all, for electrical current to flow you must force electrons out of their valene shells of one atom, into those of another ad infinitum to create that current. Since I have to "cleave" these electrons from their natural atom, they are no longer a product of nature, right?

BRB. Patent Office.

Electrons? Think smaller! I want quarks, leptons, bosons, mesons, etc.... They can't exist freely in nature any more (or less) than gene fragments can.

 

[NYFelon]

Electrons? Think smaller! I want quarks, leptons, bosons, mesons, etc.... They can't exist freely in nature any more (or less) than gene fragments can.

Sure, but I'm thinking profits and royalties my friend. Want that battery? Eff You, pay me. Watching TV? Eff you, pay me. Chatting on INGO? Eff you, PAY ME!

 

[IndySSD]

Seriously folks, read Michael Crichton's Next. Yes, it's science fiction, but he gets into the legal ramifications of such decisions and describes better than I can how horribly wrong this can go.

^^ Pretty much this ^^

This ruling is the kind of thing that would allow for real life "Blade Runner" type scenarios.... private firms creating "specifically generated beings" from patented DNA strings...

 

[eldirector]

Sure, but I'm thinking profits and royalties my friend. Want that battery? Eff You, pay me. Watching TV? Eff you, pay me. Chatting on INGO? Eff you, PAY ME!

Wanna make something? Anything? If it has mass, you owe me.

 

[NYFelon]

Wanna make something? Anything? If it has mass, you owe me.

touche good sir. but every one of those items will contain electrons. Therefore we shall agree to hold each other without liability, and fleece the rest of the world.

 

[RockofStrength]

touche good sir. but every one of those items will contain electrons. Therefore we shall agree to hold each other without liability, and fleece the rest of the world.

I just patented the Law of Thermodynamics...all of your matter that is breaking down now costs you .1 for every five seconds of decay.

 

[level.eleven]

The bartender says what are you having?
A Tachyon walks into a bar.
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A tachyon walks into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." The tachyon replies "You did tomorrow."

Particle thread declared!
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[NYFelon]

I'd be in, but I gotta take my wife upstairs and collide hadrons

 

[Fletch]

Particle thread declared!
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[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNT8SMlqLJA[/ame]

 

[level.eleven]

A Higgs boson walks into a cathedral. The pastor says "We don't allow Higgs bosons in here ". The Higgs boson then asks "But without me how can you have mass?"

 

[eldirector]

A neutron walks into a bar and asks how much the drinks cost. The bartender replies, 'For you, no charge.'

 

[96firephoenix]

-1 to the court and the complete dumbasses that serve on it.

2 atoms are walking down the street. One says "oh! I just lost an electron." the other asks, "are you sure?" The first replies "yes - I'm positive."

 

[jedi]

Sure, but I'm thinking profits and royalties my friend. Want that battery? Eff You, pay me. Watching TV? Eff you, pay me. Chatting on INGO? Eff you, PAY ME!

I'll be happy to pay you but only if I get to pay you with USD since those are going to be worth nothing real soon.

 

[Dead Duck]

That Sucks! I just gave all my old jeans to goodwill. I could have made a Fortune!