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In reply to the discussion: Remember all those posts on DU promoting genetic testing? [View all]Blue_true
(31,261 posts)You should understand how misleading your first paragraph is. I have done patents, you just CAN NOT claim something as exclusive that anyone else applying straight forward methods can come up with. An invention that will stand court challenges has to be unique and of a nature that others could not have reasonably replicated if they didn't somehow get ahold of non public information from the original inventor. There have been thousands of not hundreds of thousands of papers written on the human genome, there is not much unique about it, what is unique is how genes interact, but figuring that out takes a great deal of unique and focused effort, and would qualify for patent protection, but someone else could not be barred from using the same genome information to come up with a competing remedy. I am working on a couple of inventions now that thousands of people could try to make alternatives for. But there is a twist, I realize that only certain combinations of ingredients in specific rations give the results those people desire, so I could use that information when applying for patents and anyone that copy it will be sued by me and it would be fairly straight-forward for me to prove that they used my innovations to get their products.