The New York Times is reporting a story about how a judge, Robert W. Sweet, in New York ruled against the validity of a patent on the human genome.
I agree with the ruling, because the fact of the matter is that the intellectual property not only already existed in concept, but existed in reality, as part of the human genome.
Certainly, the company which researched and identified the genes in question have ventured into unchartered territory in the context of research, but they did not invent or create that territory.
