The genome defense : inside the epic legal battle to determine who owns your DNA / Jorge L. Contreras.
By: Contreras, Jorge L [author.].
Publisher: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, ©2021Description: 416 p.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781616209681.Subject(s): Association for Molecular Pathology, -- Trials, litigation, etc | Myriad Genetics, Inc., -- Trials, litigation, etc | Patent suits -- United States | Human gene mapping -- United States -- Patents | Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- United States -- Patents | Human gene mapping -- Law and legislation -- United States | Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Law and legislation -- United States | Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013)Genre/Form: Print books.Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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On Shelf | KF228.A8436 C66 2021 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018176 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Who can we sue? -- The world in the Helix -- The gene queen -- Mr. Lincoln's boat -- The ACLU way -- Product of nature -- On the hill -- Speaking of patents -- The power of pink -- We've got you covered -- BART -- Patents and plaintiffs -- Pulling the trigger -- The big guns -- SDNY -- Chicken and egg -- We're from the government -- Splitting the baby -- The patent court -- Magic microscope -- Last man standing -- Déjà vu all over again -- Air force 1 -- With friends like these -- Oyez, oyez, oyez! -- 9-0 -- Aftermath.
"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"--