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What are the dangers of allowing corporations to have patents on "life", DNA, and genes?
The patent laws have been interpreted to allow for the patenting of life:
http://www.actionbioscience.org/genomic/crg.html
including life such as seeds, plants, organisms, animals, and human genes
http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/trips99-cn.htm
As of 2007, 20 percent of the genes that make up human DNA are patented.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/life-patent.htm
This seems a bit unnatural to me. Why would the patent office allow such a thing? Isn't this a danger to the ecosystem and to humanity?
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
If anyone develops a drug, procedure, treatment or anything having to do with that specific gene, whoever owns the patent to it will make money from it. I guess companies are thinking ahead if they are doing research on the gene, they don't want someone else beating them to their intended outcome.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
American psychological belongings (IP) regulation prohibits claiming issues that needless to say happen in nature, which includes salmon, chemical compounds, or vegetation. What the firms do is patent the technique. in relation to genetically-engineered salmon, the corporate has a patent on the potential with the help of which they alter the salmon's genes. in relation to our John Q Public, who had his antibodies cloned, the organisation maximum in all probability patented the technique with the help of which they altered the factors of his immune gadget, or with the help of which they presented his antibodies into yet another residing gadget, and have been waiting to mass-produce it with the intention to reinject into John Q. Public. I agree that IP is amazingly a dicey subject in the area of genetics, bioengineering, and ethics. however the organisation won't be able to legally very own something that needless to say occurs in nature. subsequently, John Q. Public, ought to he decide for to workout his rights, is surely interior his rights to sue the organisation and assemble royalty and licensing funds, if in actuality what the organisation patented grew to become right into a needless to say-occuring element to his immune gadget. John Q. would, probably, on no account would desire to artwork yet another day in his existence.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
take a look at microsoft......theres your answer
- Anonymous1 decade ago
CLONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!