The Unpatentable Human Being.
On June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court placed its imprimatur on a principle that has been gathering force within patent law for several decades: human beings constitute unpatentable subject matter. In Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the court answered the question it had p...
| Publicado en: | Hastings Center Report Vol. 43; no. 5; pp. 10 - 12 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
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