• NOTHING UNDER THE SUN THAT IS MADE OF MAN

    Author(s):
    Andrew Torrance
    Date:
    2020
    Group(s):
    Michigan State Law Review
    Item Type:
    Article
    Permanent URL:
    https://doi.org/10.17613/a0pt-rd29
    Abstract:
    Many have accused patent law of impermissibly treating human beings, and aspects thereof, as property by allowing human inventions to constitute patentable subject matter, thus contravening moral and ethic principles and violating laws such as the Thirteenth Amendment. Although patents have issued claiming human subject matter, patent law has consistently limited, or even eliminated, such patents, and reformed the patent law doctrines or practices that allowed such patenting mistakes. In addition to prohibiting the patenting of human beings per se, patent law has increasingly limited claims to human genes, human embryonic stem cells, human thought, and human in vivo conversion. Despite charges to the contrary, patent law provides little support for patent servitude. Rather, patent law has tended to be sensitive to the prohibitions of, and largely in compliance with, the Thirteenth Amendment.
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    Publisher:
    Michigan State University College of Law
    Pub. Date:
    2020
    Journal:
    Michigan State Law Review
    Volume:
    2020
    Issue:
    5
    Page Range:
    1425 - 1479
    ISSN:
    1087-5468
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    1 year ago
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