Court: Nobody Can Patent Your Genes … What Does That Mean?
Posted on 06/13/2013 by Steve Mencher | News, Culture, Sights and Sounds | Comments
Bulletin Today | Personal Health | PoliticsSC: “A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and is not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated” Woo Hoo!!! — Francis S. Collins (@NIHDirector) June 13, 2013 That tweet came from the director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis S. Collins. Why is Collins so giddy? Because the Supreme Court ruled June 13 that nobody can patent your genes. (Read full decision .pdf) Collins and others at NIH, like Eric Green, M.D., the …

