Word: patentable
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...Higher life forms cannot be conceptualized as mere ‘compositions of matter’ within the context of the [1869] Patent Act,” the decision reads...
...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...
Harvard was permitted to patent the mouse in the United States in 1988, and has also done so in Europe, Japan and Australia...
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...
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...