“The government should not be granting exclusive rights to control something as personal and basic to the human body as our genes. Patents on nature and abstract ideas limit research, learning, and the free flow of information that benefits all of us,” said Sandra Park, senior staff attorney at the ACLU’s Women’s Rights Project. “The ACLU is proud to defend the ability of researchers, scientists, and patients to use what should be in the public commons to create true inventions, and we oppose this bill accordingly.” ACLU Condemns Congressional Bill To Patent Human Genes, Nature, and Abstract Ideas https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-condemns-congressional-bill-to-patent-human-genes-nature-and-abstract-ideas
A new bill would overturn decades of Supreme Court precedent and would tear down some of the public’s only protections from the worst patent abuses.
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