Sentences with phrase «individual gene patents»
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.
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The Supreme Court of Canada determined in 2002 that one could not patent a higher life form (an altered mouse having cancer genes), however individual cells were patentable (Harvard College v CIPO 2002 SCC 76).