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askBeehaw: should copyright even exist at all? and if it should, how long should the ideal term of copyright be? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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a perennial favorite topic of debate. sound off in the replies.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So many details, how trivial is a patent?
how long?
can you patent discoveries like genes?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't patent things that aren't a process or a product, so no you can't patent genes.

Patents take quite a bit of effort to write up if you really want to protect your intellectual property, and their scope is pretty narrow. The patent holder can also license with interested parties if they want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can't patent things that aren't a process or a product, so no you can't patent genes.

Genes can be sliced and spliced with methods such as CRISPR. The genetic code that has been artificially transformed by such methods qualifies as a "product". Yes, genes can be patented.