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The patents are for the use of these molecules as drugs in order to treat a disease. That is a very non-obvious and inventive process to figure out which of th
by brfox 16y ago
The patents are for the use of these molecules as drugs in order to treat a disease. That is a very non-obvious and inventive process to figure out which of the 25000 genes in the human body will be useful as a drug - and what the exact composition of that drug should be and how to make it, administer it, etc.
- sliverstorm 16y agoI don't believe genome patents require you to show how you've invented a process to use the genome- only the string of letters on a piece of ticker tape.
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