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The genome defense inside the epic legal battle to determine who owns your DNA

"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are--our DNA"--

Main Author: Contreras, Jorge L. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Patent suits > United States.
Human gene mapping > United States > Patents.
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis > United States > Patents.
Human gene mapping > Law and legislation > United States.
Human chromosome abnormalities > Diagnosis > Law and legislation > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Building the case. Who can we sue?
  • The world in the Helix
  • The gene queen
  • Mr. Lincoln's boat
  • The ACLU way
  • Product of nature
  • On the hill
  • Speaking of patents
  • The power of pink
  • We've got you covered
  • BART
  • Patents and plaintiffs
  • Pulling the trigger
  • Litigation. The big guns
  • SDNY
  • Chicken and egg
  • We're from the government
  • Splitting the baby
  • The patent court
  • Magic microscope
  • Last man standing
  • Highest court in the land. Déjà vu all over again
  • Air force 1
  • With friends like these
  • Oyez, oyez, oyez!
  • 9-0
  • Aftermath
  • Appendix: The (legal) meaning of Myriad
  • Principal characters.

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