I’m sure you’ve heard the news from the supreme court today. I’m still processing the implications, but thought I’d put this out there for everyone to see.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was wrong to find that both isolated human DNA and cDNA were both patent eligible.

“We hold that a naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated,” Thomas wrote.

“Myriad did not create anything. To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention.”

As a semi-compromise synthetic DNA can be patented. However, the fallout from this decision is just beginning.

A more in depth look at the ruling is here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20130613-707026.html?mod=googlenews_wsj