Sentences with phrase «rejecting gene patents»
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The net effect of this complex ruling is to validate gene patents as a legal concept but reject claims made by Myriad for diagnostically using the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 to identify mutations that carry a high risk for breast and ovarian cancer.
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He flatly rejected the position of the Obama Administration, whose Justice Department had filed a brief siding with those who argue for a sweeping rejection of gene patents.
The court also rejected an argument that Bowman was not liable because the beans themselves — and not the farmer — replicated Monsanto's patented genes.