Re:A 23andMe Patent
by VMG on Thursday October 03, 2013 @05:13AM
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Are you taking offense to the intellectual property issue or the ability to influence the genetics of your offspring?
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I don't know about the parent, but to me the combination definitely sounds like "immoral assheadery."
These guys seem to have a lot of patents#. Some of them seem (to me) like something you shouldn't be able to patent.^ It's a little creepy (but very easy) to imagine a future where most (rich) children are engineered by selectively accepting zygotes, sperms/eggs or actually creating them.
I don't know much about the economics or laws of IP, but I would really prefer that all the critical technology and data needed for engineering babies be treated as scientific discovery and available publicly.
#https://www.google.com/search?num=100&safe=off&biw=1024&bih=...
^https://www.google.ie/patents/US8510057?dq=23andMe&hl=en&sa=...