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LA Times Experts Fret Over Effect of Gene Patents on Research
"A newly issued patent on a gene that controls how AIDS begins infecting its victims is fueling controversy over who should own and profit from the torrent of genetic discoveries emerging from research labs and biotech companies across the country.

The patent, issued earlier this month to Maryland-based Human Genome Sciences, gives the company sweeping control over who gets to use the gene in commercial development of a new class of AIDS drugs, even though the firm knew nothing of the gene's role in AIDS when it sought the patent."

redux [02.09.00]
LA Times Patent Office Now at Heart of Gene Debate
"With the feat of deciphering the human genetic code only months from completion, medical science appears to be on the verge of a new golden age in which diseases that long defied treatment may suddenly prove curable. But amid the grand hopes lurk doubts about who will get to own and profit from the new genetic discoveries--and whether sweeping private ownership could slow, rather than speed, innovation.

"...the government's chief arbiter of ownership, the Patent and Trademark Office, has quietly proposed two rules changes that are intended to narrow what drug-makers and biotech companies can claim of the genetic code. Patent officials say the new rules, if adopted after a public comment period that ends in late March, could lead to the rejection of 500 to 1,000 cases in a backlog of about 10,000 patent applications for human genetic material."

celera.com CELERA COMPILES DNA SEQUENCE COVERING 90% OF THE HUMAN GENOME
"Celera Genomics (NYSE: CRA), a PE Corporation business, announced today that the company has DNA sequence in the Celera database that covers 90 percent of the human genome. As a result of the extensive sequence coverage of the 23 pairs of human chromosomes and based on statistical analysis, Celera believes that greater than 97 percent of all human genes are now represented in the Celera database."

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