Tgk1946's Blog

August 8, 2009

Ian Frazer on gene patents

Filed under: In the News — Tags: , — tgk1946 @ 9:55 am

Sharing genes is patently obvious
Five years ago the Australian Law Reform Commission completed a seemingly exhaustive review of gene patenting in Australia. Nowhere in its report did it make the simple point that gene patents should no longer be granted because sequencing genes amounts to tailoring pre-existing technology to discover something in our bodies.

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