There have been some unpleasant rumblings from the legal circles on a few important issues.
First, some seriously misinformed courts have ruled that ‘genes’ are not a product of nature and are therefore ‘patentable’. The upshot of this spells huge obstacles to cancer and other important medical research (patents on genes make it too expensive to do life-saving medical research) – and in my never-humble-opinion, will eventually lead to a new form of slavery where you will not actually ‘own’ your own genes…
And on another, no less important front, if Oracle gets its way, ‘open source’ could become impossible in practice.
Not good.
Xanthippa's Chamberpot 
September 9, 2011 at 05:34
I look at it like if create something such as software you should have a patent because you created it. If you chose to let it out for free that is your choice since it’s your work other wise you should be able to do with it as you will. I look at it the same way i see music. You made it it’s yours. Maybe I don’t pay enough attention to that kind of thing but that’s how I see it. Genes however should not be allowed to be patented since no one created them and if someone did it was some kind of god and they should get all the profit.
Xan says:
I would ove to see a bunch of religious leaders lead a challenge againt gene patents on the grounds tha the patent is already held by The Creator.