CNN CNN Newsroom June 13, 2013 14:44:00
This opinion today is actually very clear, readable and interesting on this question. because clarence thomas basically says anything that occurs naturally, whether an arm, a nose, part of our dna, the government cannot give you a patent for that. that is available to everyone to investigate, to look at. but as soon as you start doing something to that stretch of dna or you have a -- you create a test to use that dna, that can be patentable. so this is bad news for myriad the company that came up with this patent and has now been denied the pat teent, but it doesn't cut off the research in the...