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Who owns the human genome? What can ownership mean with respect to genes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 October 2002

HUBERT MARKL
HUBERT MARKL
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Hofgartenstrasse 8, D-80539 Munich, Germany.
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Abstract

The progressive elucidation of the structure of the human genome with the subsequent use of this information for various purposes, many of which will be of commercial value, raises questions about the ownership of the information. This article points out some of problems of defining the genome as property and explores the relevance of the usual criteria of patent law to this new situation.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Review , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2002 , pp. 513 - 517
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2002

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