Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U....
by bjelkeman-again on Sunday February 10, 2013 @02:59AM
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But our politicians have decided otherwise and allows for patents even on DNA sequences that weren't even constructed but merely discovered.
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Re:75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U....
by El_Mariachi on Sunday February 10, 2013 @04:18AM
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Those patents are on identifying, isolating, and extracting those sequences. Making a new copy of them in your body (or in the case of soybeans, growing the plant, which obviously involves DNA replication) isn't infringing, but doing anything else useful with them is.