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  • [Photo] J.W. Bizzaro • February 5, 2004
    How close is Genetic Technologies (the SCO Group of biotech) to owning all intergenic/non-coding DNA in every living creature? Eli Greenblat writes that the company has the patent for it and only one outstanding lawsuit:

    ``Investors piled into Genetic Technologies yesterday after the biotech company announced that two US groups it was suing for patent infringement had settled out of court.

    ``The win leaves only one outstanding lawsuit over Genetic Technologies' claim to have patent control over methods for researching non-coded, or `junk', DNA.

    ``....The Melbourne-based Genetic Technologies has consistently warned it would sue any company, research institution or university that infringed its patent over the so-called junk DNA.

    ``....Genetic Technologies founder and executive chairman Mervyn Jacobson said his team pounced on the unwanted DNA and successfully bought the patent covering the non-coded DNA of every living creature, including humans.''

    Full story:
    http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/17/1069027047154.html

    Courtesy Slashdot.

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