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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 years 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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.