Patent rights are not a matter of natural law but a granted privilege.
Congress determines the scope of IP rights and they should put a stop to this excessive patent granting. There is absolutely no reason to use imminent domain which is for real property, not intellectual property.
These patent holders didn't invent the genes any more than I did and they shouldn't be allowed to gene-squat.
I support Genomic Research and Accessibility Act to ban the practice of patenting genes found in nature.
Well, and I do not support it. If one is to have private R&D, one would have to recognize its property rights on its results, currently in the form of patents. And "socialized" research is best avoided wherever possible, just like any other 'socialized' approach beyond the minimalist libertarian framework.
I'm with you.
Allowing genes to be patented is ridiculous.
It is a strained analogy to intellectual property rights that provides little benefit to the public.
Note that copyrights and patents are not included in the Bill of Rights. Nobody has an inalienable right to them. They are privileges that we grant because we believe granting them benefits society. And we can and should change them when they are abused, as these are.
At the very least, patents to genes should have been granted by legislation, not a court decision extending prior law in unjustifiable directions.