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Bits and Bytes: BRCA Gene Patents
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| Breast Cancer Gene Patent Challenge:
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| * The ACLU, PUBPAT, and others continue their fight against patents
| covering the breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 held by Myriad and the
| University of Utah. The federal lawsuit argues (1) that the genes should
| not be patentable as "products of nature" and (2) that the patentee's use
| of patent rights to limit scientific research on the genes violates
| constitutional First Amendment protections.
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http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/08/bits-and-bytes-brca-gene-patents.html
Members Of Human Rights Expert Committee At UN Question Patents On Food
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| A group of experts working as a think-tank for the United Nations Human
| Rights Council raised the issue of patents and food at a meeting this week.
| Meanwhile, a new report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
| expected to be available at the end of August will focus on the intersection
| between intellectual property and the human right to food.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/08/07/members-of-human-rights-expert-committee-at-un-question-patents-food/
Patent Litigation Weekly: Stanford Researcher Loses at PTO, Still Fights On
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| Patent examiner Deandra Hughes decided that all 66 claims of the 6,188,988
| patent are, indeed, patentable, despite more than 200 pages of evidence
| submitted by Shafer and his lawyers. Even though doctors had used databases
| to help choose therapies to treat various ailments for decades before the
| first relevant patent application at issue was filed in 1998, Hughes said
| the '988 patent should be allowed. Her reasoning: the prior art references
| didn't distinguish a system with exactly three "knowledge bases." And that
| distinction aloneâhaving three "knowledge bases"âis a patentable advance,
| Hughes decided. See Notice of Intent to Uphold the Claims of the '786 patent
| [PDF].
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http://thepriorart.typepad.com/the_prior_art/2009/08/patent-litigation-weekly-stanford-researcher-loses-at-pto-still-fights-on.html
Recent:
The RIAA vs. 19 Year Old Cancer Patient
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| Among the RIAA's latest targets in its campaign to sue its customer base into
| submission is a 19-year-old cancer patient. Ciaro Sauro was ruled a music
| pirate after failing to defend herself in court against charges from the RIAA
| that she was sharing music files online. Ms. Sauro has said she couldn't
| defend herself as she is hospitalized once a week, and vehemently denies the
| allegations that she is a pirate.
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http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/entertainment/2009/3/26/the_riaa_vs_19_year_old.htm
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