Patenting genes: how do India and the US compare?

Patent laws for life forms, particularly genes, have been hit by numerous controversies despite thousands of patents already being granted in major patenting jurisdictions such as the US, Europe and Japan. The grant of patents on human genes has elicited serious apprehension in view of associated legal, ethical, moral and political sensitivities. With courts, legislatures and patent offices the world over reacting to such developments, the only constant in gene patent jurisprudence is change.

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