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...Canadian Supreme Court denied a Harvard bid to patent a genetically-engineered mouse last week in a move that has broad implications for research into higher life forms in Canada...
Last week’s denial was based on an 1869 Canadian patent law and an archaic definition of an invention as a “composition of matter.” This wording appears in United States patent law as well and originates with Thomas Jefferson, said David Morrow, the Ottawa lawyer who represented Harvard before the court...
...Just because all inventions are unanticipated and unforeseeable, it does not necessarily follow that they are all patentable,” the Canadian court decision reads...
...Canadian legislature, however, may choose to revise the 1869 law—a move the court decision encouraged. It commissioned a report from the Canadian Biotechnology Advisory Committee that favored granting patents for non-human higher life forms, Morrow said...
Morrow said that while Harvard cannot control reproduction of the mouse, his firm will negotiate with the Canadian patent office to patent the methods and cell cultures it used to develop the oncogenes...