genes

U.S. Law allows the patenting of genes and life forms, including mammals. But other countries differ and consider moral issues in reviewing patent applications; the U.S. does not. Since U.S. Patent Law is currently under revision, should moral and ethical issues become part of the patent review...

The patenting office stipulates that a successful patent applicant must have found something in nature, isolated it, and found a way to make something useful with it. The genome research of companies satisfies these criteria, so why should it be any different?

Vikas Kedia of MobiTrail.com Right from his school days Vikas Kedia would help his father run a small textiles business in Chembur, a north Mumbai suburb. Despite the small scale, Vikas and his father would pride themselves for being one of the most profitably-run companies in that line of...