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Davis, Paula K., Kelley, James J., Caltrider, Steven P., Heinig, Stephen J. |
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Nature Biotechnology; Oct2005, Vol. 23 Issue 10, p1227-1229, 3p |
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This article reports that a divided U.S. Federal Circuit has upheld the U.S. Patent Office's Utility Guidelines and found that the expressed sequence tags (ESTs) provide too little real world utility to be patented. EST is a method for sequencing the human genome that relied upon creating libraries of DNA fragments of genes expressed in a particular tissue under particular conditions. A controversial aspect of this case was whether there is a meaningful distinction between ESTs and other research tools. Whereas a microscope has specific benefit because it can magnify an object to immediately reveal its structure, ESTs can only be used to detect objects having the same structure as the ESTs itself without providing any information about the complete structure or function of the associated gene. |
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Complementary Index |
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