Supreme Court Set to Hear Arguments on Whether Human Genes Can Be Patented
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 15:00
in Mathematics & Economics
When Daniel Weaver pitches Genformatic to potential investors, he feels obliged to note a future legal uncertainty. The two-year-old company, based in Austin, Texas, offers whole-genome sequencing and analysis to researchers and physicians, with plans to apply the technology to medical diagnostics. But Weaver fears that the company could become ensnared in a thicket of thousands of patents. “Who knows how much it would cost in legal fees just to sort through that?” he says. [More]