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This one has to do with whether a company can own a bit of you, your genes. this is among the first decisions that we're hearing from the court's recent term. i want to bring in joe johns. this is the fascinating case of whether a company, in this particular case a company called myriad, can actually patent a tiny itsy-tsy piece of a person in a gene. they tried to patent two genes that had to deal with breast cancer mutation form. what did the supreme court say and why did they say it the way they did? >> reporter: well, first it was a unanimous decision and it's important to note that the co...