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cord-298136-mel9fxw8	O'Malley, Maureen A.	Whole-genome patenting	2005-05-10		.txt	text/plain	4106	189	44	Gene patenting is now a familiar commercial practice, but there is little awareness that several patents claim ownership of the complete genome sequence of a prokaryote or virus. However, further analysis reveals that patent specifications describing whole-genome inventions use arguments that imply that genomes are qualitatively different from individual genes. This standard allows several sub-inventions to be linked together by a common "general inventive concept", but prevents unrelated inventions from succeeding as a single Abstract | Gene patenting is now a familiar commercial practice, but there is little awareness that several patents claim ownership of the complete genome sequence of a prokaryote or virus. If there are any qualitative differences between patents for whole genomes and those for DNA fragments, it seems likely that they will be found in the utility arguments -the most contested feature of recent gene patenting.	./cache/cord-298136-mel9fxw8.txt	./txt/cord-298136-mel9fxw8.txt