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W2-Intellectual Property-Patenting life?

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Q Using the course Required Readings, the case of Assn for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (2013), and your own research: • Identify the requirements for a patent. • Then further discuss: Should a company be allowed to patent a life form? Does it matter if the life form is a non-sentient organism like a plant? Is there a place where the law can ethically draw a line between life as property and life as beyond the right of any person or business to own or appropriate?

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The five specific requirements of patents are as follows- • Innovation is a patentable subject matter- This merely includes various new products like different kinds of toys, machine and mechanisms as well. It also includes different types of medical devices besides pharmaceutical drugs.