Word: patent
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...Oncomice," which have genes that make them prone to cancer, won the first ever American patent for an animal in 1988, but the University has been fighting for fifteen years to gain similar protection in Canada...
...ruling by the Canadian Federal Court of Appeal reversed the decisions of Canada's patent commissioner and a lower court, requiring the commissioner to apply the same criteria to living and inanimate inventions. The decision was confined to interpretation of the patent code and did not address broader ethical objections some raised to the patenting of life forms...
...ruling will allow for renewal of patent review for more than 250 biotechnology applications that have been on hold awaiting the decision...
David Einhorn, counsel at the Jackson Laboratory, a major supplier of laboratory mice that distributes animals covered by the oncomouse patent, said the mice typically sell for about $50 to $60 each...
...There are a number of strains that fit within the definition of the patent but we don't distribute large numbers of these mice," Einhorn said. "I can't imagine Canada's that big a market...