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After an unanticipated setback a year ago, Myriad Genetics has taken its case to a federal appeals court to retain its patents for the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes
Access to genetic testing Some say gene patents restrict access to genetic testing, and in some cases, prevent patients from being tested at all.
The court was ruling on a case, In re Kubin, involving a patented gene sequence for the human immune protein NAIL, owned by Amgen Inc. in Thousand Oaks, California.
«Gene patents defy common sense,» says Chris Hansen, one of the ACLU lawyers handling the case.
Defendants in a high - profile lawsuit that could have significant implications for thousands of patents on human genes have now asked a federal judge to dismiss the case, calling it a «thinly veiled attempt to challenge the validity of patents.»
Biotech companies got a break today when a U.S. appeals court handed down a long - awaited ruling on gene patents in a case prompted by a suit involving Myriad Genetics of Salt Lake City.
The case seeks to invalidate the biotechnology company Myriad's patents of two genes, BRCA1 and BRCA2, which are involved in the estimation of breast cancer.
Ultimately, the case will decide whether human genes can indeed be patented in the United States.
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't the only high court considering a precedent - setting case on patenting human genes.
As with the case before the U.S. Supreme Court, Australian opponents of gene patenting argue that it discourages research by placing financial and legal hurdles in front of scientists who are seeking to work with patented biological material.
The case highlights concerns that a network of individual gene patents could threaten the future of personalized medicine and whole - genome sequencing by blocking companies and clinicians from reporting a patient's genetic risk factors for different diseases.
Myriad's portfolio also includes patents on methods of analyzing BRCA genes for links to cancer — and these are outside the scope of the current case.
The case is limited to patents that cover the sequence of a gene, rather than methods used to analyze it (see «A plethora of patents»).
A court case surrounding gene patents for high - risk forms of breast cancer puts two viewpoints of «products of nature» on the stand.
She was the original plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned the ability to patent genes and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Genetic Testing.
The case is important because thousands of genes have been patented in the United States, and no one is sure what will happen if the judges rule Myriad's patents invalid.
Now, Monsanto, leader in the production of genetically modified seeds, maintains a $ 10m budget for investigating and prosecuting «seed savers», and has won cases against farmers whose only crime is that, due to the birds, bees and wind, some of their plants have been pollinated by plants containing patented Monsanto genes.
This would seem to be the case, and all the more so, when the University of Utah Research Foundation launched patent - infringement suits against Ambry Genetics and Gene by Gene on July 9th and 10th, as these two companies had started to provide women with the genetic tests for breast cancer at greatly reduced prices ($ 2,280 and $ 995 respectively).
Let me show how the distinction is both missing and operative in the case of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene patents.