I never understood why patents were ever allowed for embryonic stem cells. They are not human inventions. They — like genes — are naturally occurring. Accordingly, the European courts have rejected stem cell patents....
Read MoreThe Supreme Court will decide whether human genes can be patented. From the Reuters story: The nation’s highest court in a brief order agreed to review a case over whether Myriad Genetics Inc may patent two genes linked to...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC A patent is allowed if something is a human invention. Naturally occurring elements and entities should therefore, not be patentable. And now, the Supreme Court has...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC I wrote a few weeks ago about the European Union’s highest court ruling that products made from embryonic stem cell research cannot be patented. First Things asked me...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC Good. As anticipated, the EU’s top court has banned patents on embryonic stem cells as EU law prohibits patenting products that came from destroying embryos. From the...
Read MoreBy Wesley J. Smith, J.D., Special Consultant to the CBC The embryonic stem cell research controversy is an ethics, not a science, debate. But it also involves the rule of law. Indeed, two recent court rulings—one in the...
Read More“A disgraced South Korean scientist’s application for a patent to protect his disputed human embryo cloning technology is still under review, Australia’s intellectual property protection body says. Agency...
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