US judge strikes down patent on cancer genes

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Originally Posted by tommymac

I think its like when a drug company has a patent on a drug thye set the price for it. If biotech firm can patent a speciffic gene that causes cancer then they can set the market price for tests/tumor markers they may develop and any future treatments.

Yeah. Also, our patent system is so messed up that there are plenty of things with patents on them now which probably wouldnt hold up if they were challenged in court.