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Do I understand correctly that just physically extracting a certain piece of DNA from a cell ("purifying" it) makes it patentable? That seems silly.
by pingswept 16y ago
Do I understand correctly that just physically extracting a certain piece of DNA from a cell ("purifying" it) makes it patentable? That seems silly.
- ewjordan 16y agoDo I understand correctly that just physically extracting a certain piece of DNA from a cell ("purifying" it) makes it patentable? That seems silly. Yeah, it's ludicrous - imagine that I tried to file for a patent on using a random (but useful!) phrase in English on the basis that I was able to write a Perl regex to pull it out of a web page. And I won't even qualify that with the usual "poor analogy" disclaimer - it's almost exactly what the current law allows for, just replace "random phrase in English" with "snippet of DNA", and "Perl regex" with "biochemical reaction".
- kljensen 16y agoYes. That is basically the case.