October 14, 2005

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Denial of DNA Patent

By GOLDIE BLUMENSTYK

Academics and others worried that the proliferation of gene patents could inhibit scientific research received comforting news last month from a federal appeals court.

The court upheld the denial of a patent on a DNA sequence in corn genes to two scientists working for a division of the Monsanto Company.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office had denied the patent. In the ruling upholding the patent office's decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the

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