Biz, Tech: Does the U.S. think companies should patent genes?
- NO they think that genes are part of nature and shouldn’t be source
- » Why this is a big deal: Well, among other things, this is a change of policy for them, one that could make it harder for the biotechnology and medicine industries to keep innovations unique. We wish that the government would make this distinction on software patents over trivial things. See, that’s where a change in decision is necessary.