They rarely all agree. But when they do, you can be sure they’re right.
Yesterday, in an unanimous decision not seen in ages, the Supreme Court held, ‘You may not patent something made by God.’ Henceforth, there shall be no US patents issued on naturally occurring human genes. Amen.
Opponents hammered all along, and continue their clamoring today, that patent protection of bits and pieces of human DNA insures innovation and progress. It is a species argument spun from dank wool. In the words of Thomas Jefferson, “invented where facts failed.”
I fully expect a joyful stampede of geeks driving venture capital wagons onto the opened field, wheels turning and hats flying such as has not been seen since the Oklahoma Rush.
The frontier is now open, and, as my dad likes to say, “There’s always room for somebody good.”
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