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Judge Hears Arguments Over Rights To Genes Patents
A judge has heard arguments in a challenge to the right of a company to hold patents to human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer.
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NEW YORK (February 2, 2010)--Lawyers challenging the right of a company to hold patents on two human genes linked to breast and ovarian cancer told a judge in New York that the patents are stalling important research.
Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation asked federal Judge Robert Sweet in Manhattan Tuesday to rule the patents invalid.
He did not immediately rule, but attorney Brian Poissant said Myriad Genetics and the University of Utah Research Foundation have a right to the patents.
He said to disallow the patents would weaken the foundation of the entire biotechnology industry and said court precedent is on their side.
U.S. government attorneys defended the patents, saying the groups do not have the right to even challenge them.
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