The reason people want to get patents is to protect the inventor by allowing them the exclusive ability to make, sell and use their invention (Morgan) Under the Patent Act of 1970 a patent must satisfy two basic requirements: the creation must be novel or original and it can not have been previously patented US or any country, it also cannot appear in prior art, all public information that might germane to the applicants novelty (Morgan). Based on these requirements I do think that business can patent their property rights to modified organisms (GMOs).
In the case Diamond v. Chakrabarty the court ultimately had to decide if biotech subject matter was patent-eligible. They deemed it was patent-eligible which declared “everything under the
In the case Diamond v. Chakrabarty the court ultimately had to decide if biotech subject matter was patent-eligible. They deemed it was patent-eligible which declared “everything under the