HUMAN cDNA SEQUENCES OF UNKNOWN UTILITY SHOULD REMAIN UNPATENTABLE
Executive Summary
HUMAN cDNA SEQUENCES OF UNKNOWN UTILITY SHOULD REMAIN UNPATENTABLE by either the National Institutes of Health or the private sector, NIH Director Harold Varmus asserted at the Jan. 24 meeting of the National Advisory Council for Human Genome Research in Washington, D.C. Varmus noted that NIH's institutional position on the patentability of cDNA sequences for which the function is unknown is still being developed. However, he said that his personal view is that "none of these sequences by themselves ought to be patentable."
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