U.S. gene-patent ruling could mean better cancer genetic tests for Canadians

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"....But Gold notes that the U.S. court decision doesn’t mean that laws in Canada are changing.
“The Canadian patents read almost identically to those in the U.S., but this Supreme Court decision doesn’t touch us. So here, we’re sitting in a situation where these patents exist on paper and nobody knows now if Canadian courts will follow the U.S. lead,” he said.
The decision also affects Canadian biotechnology companies working on their own breast cancer gene-testing. But the decision was somewhat moot, because most companies have already moved on from trying to patent specific, isolated genes to patenting synthetically-created DNA, known as cDNA.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling decided that synthetic DNA can be patented "because it is not naturally occurring.”.....