This does seem to be a pretty decent area to provide intellectual property-based incentives for. The fundamental innovation here is intellectual -- it's the eng

This does seem to be a pretty decent area to provide intellectual property-based incentives for. The fundamental innovation here is intellectual -- it's the engineering of a new genetic code. All of us are familiar with something similar -- engineering of new computer code. It is often granted that computer code provides unique benefits worth protecting. I can certainly see why genetic engineering deserves similar protections. That said, this is a fairly complicated piece of case law and I could definitely see how it could fall through the cracks in naively written legislation.