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Natural DNA Cannot Be Patented, Supreme Court Rules : The Two-Way : NPR
by thenewgreen

    In a decision that could have broad-reaching effects on the future of science and medicine, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday that:

    — "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated."

    — But, synthetically created "strands of nucleotides known as composite DNA (cDNA)" are "patent eligible" because they do not occur naturally.