Supreme Court strikes down patents for natural DNA sequences!

[thewayne]

YES! And a unanimous ruling! It's always been understood that things in nature cannot be patented, I don't know why the patent office didn't reject applications like this from the beginning. But it's well-known that the U.S. patent office is underfunded and understaffed and unable to keep up with the rapid rate of change in new tech fields.

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/13/06/13/1550225/supreme-court-no-patents-for-natural-dna-sequences

Comments

[silveradept]

And this is why the patent office needs experts in their proper fields. Which probably means they should pay the examiners more and the legislators less.