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Originally Posted by tommymac
I think its like when a drug company has a patent on a drug thye set the price for it. If biotech firm can patent a speciffic gene that causes cancer then they can set the market price for tests/tumor markers they may develop and any future treatments.
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Yeah. Also, our patent system is so messed up that there are plenty of things with patents on them now which probably wouldnt hold up if they were challenged in court.