Oral arguments in US BRCA patent case: Where did this 'mess' come from?
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
The re-emergence of an analogy during oral arguments in a US patent case against Myriad Genetics of whether the process of isolating DNA is any different from making a baseball bat by extracting it from an ash tree shows that questions over what constitutes a law of nature are continuing to dominate debate.