Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc.
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Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013), was a Supreme Court case, which decided that "a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated.” However, as a "bizarre conciliatory prize" the Court allowed patenting of complementary DNA, which contains exactly the same protein-coding base pair sequence as the natural DNA, albeit with introns removed. The lawsuit in question challenged the valid
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2013 United States Supreme Court case
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2010-10-04T09:09:35Z
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2024-09-01T00:51:03Z
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