{"id":75215,"date":"2012-11-30T19:30:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T03:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=19173"},"modified":"2012-11-30T19:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-01T03:30:33","slug":"can-your-genes-be-patented","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/30\/can-your-genes-be-patented\/","title":{"rendered":"Can your genes be patented?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2012\/11\/30\/us\/politics\/ap-us-supreme-court-cancer-patent-.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=print\">Court to Decide if Human Genes Can Be Patented<\/a>. So it seems a group of middle aged to very aged lawyers will decide the decades long <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myriad_Genetics#Legislation_and_Litigation\">Myriad Genetics saga<\/a>. My position on this issue is simple: <b>if you are going to award patents, they must be awarded to acts of engineering, not discoveries of science.<\/b> See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genomicslawreport.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/30\/supreme-court-to-rule-on-patentability-of-human-genes\/\">Genomics Law Report<\/a> for more well informed commentary.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/SfoVP9vhemE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court to Decide if Human Genes Can Be Patented. So it seems a group of middle aged to very aged lawyers will decide the decades long Myriad Genetics saga. My position on this issue is simple: if you are going to award patents, they must be awarded to acts of engineering, not discoveries of science. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1380,2106,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-myriad-genetics","category-personal-genomics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}