[Newsbot]

Title: High court throws out human gene patents
Category: Health
Posted By: Curtman
Date: 2012-03-26 17:31:48

[Scape]

Here is a good reason why they SHOULD patent it:



Without profit big pharma simply can not do the research required.

[jeff744]

Exactly correct, there is a reason big pharma are out to annihilate generic brands of drugs, they spend hundreds of millions making the drug, they need to get their money back and make enough to spend on the next drug which will likely cost even more to make.

[DrCaleb]

Scape Scape:

Here is a good reason why they SHOULD patent it:

Without profit big pharma simply can not do the research required.

But if it is patented, we lose control over it. Our genes do not belong to us, they belong to our decendants.

[Dragon-Dancer]

Patents should be on the process, the test or the drug that was the outcome not on the gene sequence itself. They didn't invent it so it doesn't belong to them. The courts got it right.