Myriad Genetics received patents for methods to identify women with genes that create a high risk of breast cancer.
VOA: special.2010.04.09
Such patents already exist. In March,for example, after re-examination, Amazon.com received a patent for its one-click ordering process.
VOA: special.2010.07.16
"The Supreme Court held that there is no categorical rule denying patent protection for business method patents."
VOA: special.2010.07.16
Patents involving the two genes made Myriad the only company able to offer the costly tests.
VOA: special.2010.04.09
Now,more cases will be needed to define the legal limits of business method patents.
VOA: special.2010.07.16
But federal Judge Robert Sweet cancelled seven of twenty-three patents related to the genes.
VOA: special.2010.04.09
Critics say such patents block progress against disease and development of new treatments.
VOA: special.2010.03.23
He said they violate the law against patents for products of nature.
VOA: special.2010.04.09
When patent laws were first developed, most patents were for machines.
VOA: special.2010.07.16
Cancer activists and researchers fought the patents.
VOA: special.2010.04.09
Patents are a form of intellectual property.
VOA: special.2010.07.16
Brazil wanted to hit the U.S. where it would hurt more: by breaking patents on pharmaceuticals and copyrights on movies and software.
VOA: standard.2010.04.28
Major manufacturers of generic medications, in India and Brazil, accuse the pharmaceutical industry of using the issue of counterfeiting to protect their patents.
VOA: standard.2010.06.07
Lang lives in the San Francisco bay area. He is a laser physicist and graduate of the California Institute of Technology, and has nearly 50 U.S.patents to his name.
VOA: standard.2010.03.17
He was granted more than 600 patents. His ideas for processes or devices are used in bar-code scanners, automated warehouse manufacturing systems,fax and automated teller machines, the crying baby doll, and Sony Walkman portable cassette player.
VOA: standard.2009.12.18
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