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One fifth of human genome patented

posted by Zed on November 22 2005 22:05

If you’re alive, you’re duplicating your DNA. Odds are good you’re infringing on a patent.

OK, that’s not true. It does mean that you can’t put genes to specific purposes covered by the patents (regardless of whether you were born making copies of them.)

And the 20% figure is based on an estimate of how many human genes there are — it’s an estimate that’s looked good for a couple of years, but it’s a hard problem.

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