GE CLST M71A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Patent Infringement, Brca2, Brca1

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST M71A
• Professor: Rensel, M.A.; Le Goff, A.G.; Panofsky, A.L.

Document Summary

Ethics differs from law (law = rules society sets) Not abstract questions: patent and genes have a social, historical, and biological context, with potential inequalities. Patents on cell lines (moore v. regents of uc 1990) On genes (before 2013, 4300+ human genes patented) (including expressed sequence tags [ets]) Ets tags a sequence, used to identify genes (without them, can"t identify)4. 1998 patents on genes granted to myriad genetics. Dna coding for brca1 and brca2 proteins, all wt and mutated versions cdna (isolated complimentary dna) Comparison of dna w/ wt dna that allows to identify mutations. Exclusive right to isolate brca1 brca2 genes in an individual (testing & research) Us constitution ***patent law is national not international. Promote progress of science and useful arts (nobody would want to discover anything if could be stolen right away ) + for inventor (business for an amount of time, justice) Civil lawsuit against patent infringement (people who steal your stuff)