[Next-Generation Sequencing Book]
  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • August 22, 2001
    ``Like the Terrys, a rising number of patients, doctors and ethicists are questioning how the patent system handles genetic claims. Many say it awards too many patents, overly rewards their holders, and gives too little back to patients. Yet many industry voices complain the process is moving too slowly to keep up with galloping research and to yield medical care awaited by suffering patients.

    ``The strains from both sides are apt to intensify. The run on genetic patents will grow fiercer in the next several years, spurred by longer lists of genes and derived proteins discovered by genomics and proteomics projects, according to patent experts in business and government.

    ```The gold rush days are about to begin,' says Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania. `There are so many targets that look so lucrative that they're falling all over one another to pursue opportunity after opportunity.'''

    Full story:
    http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/svfeatures/008535.htm

    Reference by Snowdeal.org.

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