Supreme Court Rules That Human Genes CANNOT be Patented

Wow, chalk this up as a pleasant surprise! The Supreme Court has unanimously decided that "naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent eligible merely because it has been isolated, but that [synthetic DNA] is patent eligible because it is not naturally occurring."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/06/13/1215913/-Supreme-Court-Rules-That-Human-Genes-CANNOT-be-Patented