Not patenting human genes will have a negative impact on research

Not patenting human genes will have a negative impact on research

Angelina Jolie’s double mastectomy also arrested the nation’s attention to Myriad’s patents on genes. Is it legal to patent human genes as well?

For:

- Patenting was introduced to bring about innovation
- By Myriad patenting the genes, neither did they alter the genes nor will anyone else be able to alter be it the physicians or researchers, hence blocking all these people to work on it further
- Financiers who have invested in the genetic patenting would get decent profit by commercializing the research product output
- Patenting of genes would lead to advancement and speeding up clinical research and its branches

Against:

- Highly expensive procedure
- Patenting discourages competition, locks up ideas, stops the development of diagnostics and therapeutics
- Patenting was introduced only for new things introduced in the market by a commercial entity
- Patenting of genes would neither be legal nor ethical as you cannot patent things that are nature products. Patenting can be done only on new human made things
- Completely ruling out the patenting of genes, the researchers will not be encouraged to reveal their innovation of a human genes structure responsible for a particular disease

Conclusion:

- Any natural thing if altered will have its own side – effects. Any such kind of a venture should be thoroughly analysed and then only should there be any further advancement.