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You can call it anything you like but it's still the repairing of DNA. It will be contested in Court and the patent holder will lose.
by hn_submit 2mo ago
You can call it anything you like but it's still the repairing of DNA. It will be contested in Court and the patent holder will lose.
- Arainach 2mo agoWhat's your source for this? This isn't how patent law works. You can't patent "repairing a road" but you can absolutely patent a new mechanism to do so. Most patents are of this form - there are far more patents for improved ways of doing things than initial ways of doing things.
- hn_submit 2mo agoYou cannot patent gene repair with CRISPR-CAS because that's long been patented (and also disputed by multiple entities). If several genes are faulty and I repair them what would be the innovation? The detection of a specific set of faulty genes? The order of repair? Big Pharma has long figured this out and I have inside knowledge from people who know that this is the reason they're not pursuing it. P.S.: Big Pharma is now quietly also researching gene repair but I believe it's to hedge their bets. Maybe they're counting on "lobbying"/bribing politicians to allow them to patent gene repair regardless.