Sentences with phrase «patent on genes»

Should patents on gene cell sequences follow the classical model of patent claims or be limited to specific uses («purpose - bound protection»)?

There have been numerous papers and patents on gene cloning and metabolic engineering of PHA biosynthetic machineries, biochemical studies, and production of PHAs; simple Google search with «polyhydroxyalkanoates» yielded returns of 223,000 document pages.

A Supreme Court decision in June to strike down a company's patent on genes linked to breast cancer could have far - reaching consequences for biotechnology and medical research.

Courage notes that the Canadian Intellectual Property Office is still issuing patents on genes and there was one enforced in Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Schmeiser — in which a party was found guilty of infringement.

When it filed for a patent on the gene, it didn't list the academic collaborators as co-inventors, although Greider maintains that her lab contributed biochemical protocols for purifying telomerase that were crucial to Geron's discovery.

Last week, a federal jury deadlocked on a claim by the University of California (UC) that South San Francisco biotech giant Genentech had infringed the university's patent on the gene for human growth hormone.

The lawsuit against Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation, which hold the patents on the genes, charged that the challenged patents are illegal and restrict both scientific research and patients» access to medical care, and that patents on human genes violate the First Amendment and patent law because genes are «products of nature.»