Posted by Bowser on June 28, 2000 at 02:12:54:
In Reply to: Gene Copyright posted by Mike on June 27, 2000 at 21:02:15:
It's happened already but the guy who 'owned' the gene didn't have his name on the patent. A doctor/scientist treating this poor unfortunate for a rare disease patented some of the patient's DNA. He lost the case to reclaim his own DNA in the USA and was lobbying Europe to try to make sure that they didn't go down the same path. For a long time in Europe you couldn't patent a living organism. But no longer.