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The government's actual position is more subtle than the NYT title suggests: "While the government took the plaintiffs’ side on the issue of isolated DNA, it s
by carbocation 16y ago
The government's actual position is more subtle than the NYT title suggests:
"While the government took the plaintiffs’ side on the issue of isolated DNA, it sided with Myriad on patentability of manipulated DNA."
- nodata 16y agoHow long is a piece of manipulated DNA? Would claiming prior art be mathematically feasible on all manipulated DNA?
- carbocation 16y agoThe first question is similar to asking, "How long is a string?" Arbitrarily long. I think that "prior art" and "obviousness" claims for certain classes of manipulations should (in a world run by biologists) be useful. For example, if you discover New Gene X and manipulate its DNA to tag its protein product with a fluorescent protein, that's pretty damn obvious because that's what we do with every other protein.
- sprout 16y agoIt's all obvious in the natural world (and living things reuse code without regard for law.)