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Patenting Genes: Genetically Modified Organisms (Gmos), Kelsey Gibbs
Patenting Genes: Genetically Modified Organisms (Gmos), Kelsey Gibbs
Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE)
Protecting intellectual integrity of inventions is not a new concept. Protection in the form of patents dates as early as Ancient Greece. In the United States, patent laws have a very broad scope that have been very loosely interpreted. These laws were designed to protect man-made innovations. Until the 1980s this principle has been upheld. In 1980, a Supreme Court case ruled that a bacteria had been genetically modified by the insertion of genes. The inserted genes transformed the bacteria from a product of nature to a commodity. This case opened a floodgate of patents sought for genetically modified organisms. …