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If a patent application discloses only nucleic acid molecular structure for a newly discovered gene, and no utility for the claimed isolated gene, the claimed invention is not patentable.

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However, forget for a moment that genes are “information.” Think of DNA as a chemical that can be extracted from a human cell!

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However, this is the current understanding of the law until judicial rulings or legislation declare otherwise.

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Djarum Black — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:03:14 -0000

Abstract ideas, mathematical formulas, and products of nature are all specifically excluded as patentable subjects by judicial rulings. However, forget for a moment that genes are “information.” Think of DNA as a chemical that can be extracted from a human cell

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That processing method and its products constitute patentable subject matter.

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While Judge Learned Hand held that while adrenaline itself was a product of nature, the purified adrenaline was something new and thus a patentable subject matter.

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bejeweled — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:03:03 -0000

eventually the genes are going to be 100% mapped, it's just a matter of time and how open the world is going to be about this subject.

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I think it's every mans right to decide his own opinion on this subject.

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Free Online Games — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:07:05 -0000

The precedent for these biochemical patents is Parke-Davis & Co. v H.K. Mulford & Co. At issue was a patent for purified animal adrenaline.

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Tower defense — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:04:41 -0000

The requirement that a chemical process be useful is not satisfied by a showing that the compound yielded belongs to a class of compounds which scientists are screening for possible uses.

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In practice, scientists do not simply “observe” the “abstract ideas” of DNA “in nature” with something like a microscope. DNA must first be “processed” for humans to learn anything about it. That processing method and its products constitute patentable subject matter.

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Escape games — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:02:29 -0000

That is, where the application discloses a specific, substantial, and credible utility for the claimed isolated and purified gene, the isolated and purified gene composition may be patentable.

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While Judge Learned Hand held that while adrenaline itself was a product of nature, the purified adrenaline was something new and thus a patentable subject matter.
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tower defense games — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:20:30 -0000

an inventor’s discovery of a gene can be the basis for a patent on the genetic composition isolated from its natural state and processed through purifying steps that separate the gene from other molecules naturally associated with it

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The requirement that a chemical process be useful is not satisfied by a showing that the compound yielded belongs to a class of compounds which scientists are screening for possible uses.

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Thus, an inventor’s discovery of a gene can be the basis for a patent on the genetic composition isolated from its natural state and processed through purifying steps that separate the gene from other molecules naturally associated with it.

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The precedent for these biochemical patents is Parke-Davis & Co. v H.K. Mulford & Co. At issue was a patent for purified animal adrenaline

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Managed Hosting — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:00:55 -0000

It is merely the right to exclude others from making, using, importing, selling, and offering for sale the patented matter.