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COURT DECISION ON GENE PATENTING

Prof. Erik GordonDespite the Supreme Court's mixed ruling on gene patentability, Myriad Genetics Inc. retains "extremely valuable" patents on its testing method, and "it will take a while for anyone to duplicate the tests without infringing them."

Prof. Erik Gordon, director of the Zell Entrepreneurship & Law Program, in a Washington Post story following the Supreme Court ruling that genes found naturally in the body cannot be patented, but those created synthetically can be.