Patenting Human DNA Sequences; Absolute Product Patents - A Reasonable Degree of Protection?
The legal controversy on ''patents on life'' is not new but in the last two decades, we have seen the debate be intensified. Although patents on biological material have been allowed in the United States since the emergence of Diamond v. Chakrabarty in 1980, it was not until scientists at the National Institute of Health tried to patent thousands of gene fragments in the early nine
