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In 2002, the United States Patent and Trademark Office awarded a patent on a diagnostic method related to inflammatory bowel disease. The method consisted of administering a particular drug, measuring the concentration of a particular substance in the blood, and then recognizing that particular concentrations of that substance “indicates a need” to increase or decrease the drug dose. The patent did not claim a new drug or a new technology for measuring blood levels. No, it merely covered a correlation between blood concentrations and the optimal drug dosage, and the use of that correlation to adjust the drug dosage.

Are you really allowed to get a patent on what amounts to a fact about the human body? Traditionally, the answer would have been a clear no. For most of our nation’s history, patents have been limited to physical machines and processes for manipulating matter—engines, chemicals, electronic devices, and so forth. The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that “laws of nature, physical phenomena, and abstract ideas” are not eligible for patent protection.

More: http://www.forbes.com/sites/timothylee/2011/09/12/libertarian-think-tanks-oppose-patents-on-abstract-ideas/
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