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He's Baaack!

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

Congressman Becerra Once Again Tries to Ban Gene Patenting by Statute By Kevin E. Noonan -- When last we encountered Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-CA), he was rumored to be headed for a post as U.S. Trade Representative (see "Proponent of Gene Patent Ban to Leave Congress"). That seems to have fallen through, because the Congressman remains as the chief legislative threat to gene patenting. He has introduced anti-gene patenting legislation in the past (see "The Continuing Threat to Human Gene Patenting"), spurred on by the late Michael Crichton's unrealistic warnings about the purported "threat" (see "Science Fiction in The New...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 09, 2010 (boomark / email).