Will US Patent Office end gene patent enslavement of the human race?

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(NaturalNews) This is one of the most important issues for the future of human civilization: Who owns your genetic code? Based on existing U.S. law, the corporations own it. Right now, over 20% of your genetic code is owned by biotech corporations (this is a fact). But the U.S. Justice Department has just issued a "friend of the court" briefing that looks poised to overturn this, driving a stake through the heart of the intellectual property monster known as the biotech industry.

This is a major reversal of decades of U.S. policy. If the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) enforces this new ruling, it would mean an end to all biotech patents on human genes. Effectively, it would set our genetic code free from corporate domination.

Human genes are part of nature, not a human invention
In its brief, the Dept of Justice argued that genes should not be patentable because they are part of nature:

"The chemical structure of native human genes is a product of nature, and it is no less a product of nature when that structure is 'isolated' from its natural environment than are cotton fibers that have been separated from cotton seeds or coal that has been extracted from the earth..."

Will US Patent Office end gene patent enslavement of the human race?

Dear God, please let this come about! The late Dr. Michael Crichton warned of the problem of genetic patents in several of his books (Jurassic Park, NEXT et al). It IS time to abolish ALL patent laws in the United States as they are totally antithetical to competition as well as quite simply NOT working (reference RIAA's ridiculous stance and how it has hurt their bottom line). However, one step at a time is good and this is a most critical step.

 

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