In response to some scientists' concerns about the rush to patent DNA segments, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office posted a new set of proposed examinations guidelines on its Web site. Jeffrey P. Kushan, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Atlanta's Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy L.L.P., said these new utility guidelines should catch the attention of scientists and academics who espouse the purist view that very small DNA segments shouldn't be patented.
January 11, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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In response to some scientists’ concerns about the rush to patent DNA segments, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) on Dec. 21 posted a new set of proposed examinations guidelines on its Web site.
Jeffrey P. Kushan, a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Atlanta’s Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy L.L.P., said that these new utility guidelines should catch the attention of scientists and academics who espouse the purist view that very small DNA segments shouldn’t be patented.
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