#22 Can (and should) we patent DNA ? (Jorge L. Contreras)

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Holobiont

Ursule Demael

22 episodes

5 days ago

A podcast at the crossroads of microbiology, immunology, evolution, computational biology and more. Through informal interviews with researchers and students, I explore how biological organisms are "holobionts": super-organisms formed by a host and all of its communities of micro-organisms ( bacteria, viruses, fungi...)

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#22 Can (and should) we patent DNA ? (Jorge L. Contreras)

Holobiont

50 minutes 19 seconds

3 years ago

#22 Can (and should) we patent DNA ? (Jorge L. Contreras)

Jorge L. Contreras is a Professor of Law at the University of Utah, specialising in Intellectual Property and Technology Law. He is the author of 150+ scholarly publications, alongside praised non-fiction books including “The Genome Defense: Inside the Epic Legal Battle to determine who owns your DNA” (2021). This book explores the AMP vs Myriad Case, which was sparked by patents litigations on the breast cancer gene BRCA for diagnostics, and historically determined that naturally occuring genes cannot be patented.

Timestamps

[01:00] Fundamental Principles of Patenting

[08:30] Novelty and Utility in Patenting

[10:40] BRCA and the AMP vs Myriad Case

[17:00] Ethics of gene patenting

[23:30] The case for gene patents in biotech

[28:15] Alternative intellectual property than patents

[33:00] Gene patents on pandemic pathogens

[38:00] Patents in a globalised world

[44:00] Future challenges in biotech patents

The Genome Defense Book Website : https://genomedefense.org

A thought about the genome as a public good, like a shared universal truth contained in all life forms, and faithfully entrusted from one generation to the next

**Whoever has seen the universe, whoever has beheld the fiery designs of the universe, cannot think in terms of one man** (Borges, The God's Script (La escritura del Dios))