Germline Patents

The blog, Biolaw: Law and the Life Sciences, has an interesting post on  a recent European Patent that includes a method of gender selecting for sperm.  Biolaw points out that the patent not only applies to this method, but in addition also claims that cover sperm cells themselves and that nowhere are the claims limited to non-human mammals.  The notion of human germline patents is controversial.

Read the whole post here.

Read the European Patent law claims here.

Posted by Jon Lutz