ACLU asks Supreme Court to rule on gene patents

Emily Stehr | October 8, 2012

The ACLU has petitioned the US Supreme Court to review a Federal Circuit Court’s decision that an isolated DNA sequence is a “composition of matter” that is eligible to be patented under federal law.

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Supreme Court: Liberate the human genome, ACLU

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