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"Through new technologies, all plants, animals, micro-organisms and human beings, down to their individual genes",[1] are potential resources to be utilised or exploited.
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"Through new technologies, all plants, animals, micro-organisms and human beings, down to their individual genes",1 are potential resources to be utilised or exploited. Many people and organisations are actively exploring these resources. This essay will examine the implications of patents applying to genes and the advantages and disadvantages of gene patenting, and present a possible solution. "Patent laws vary according to jurisdiction, but most share a number of key features. On award of a patent, the holder is given the exclusive right to use that invention for up to twenty years in exchange for details of the invention being on the public register, ensuring eventual spreading of all the knowledge. Any other person wishing to use that invention can only do so legally with the permission of the patent holder, usually on some payment of royalties or licence fees."2 It is only recently that products from humans and/or human genetic materials...
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