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Debating Gene Patents - Round Four

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

By Donald Zuhn -- In January, the gene patenting debate returned to National Public Radio when WBUR's "On Point" became the fourth NPR program to tackle the issue since last May, when a group of patients, physicians, academic researchers, and medical societies filed suit against the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Myriad Genetics, among others, in Association for Molecular Pathology v. United States Patent and Trademark Office (see Patent Docs reports here and here). The first discussion, involving Dr. Hans Sauer, the Associate General Counsel for Intellectual Property for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO); Joshua Sarnoff, Professor of the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).