IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
REPRESENTATIVE(S) ALI, CHENTEL, AMBER, HEATHER
INTRODUCED THE FOLLOWING BILL:
A BILL
TO ESTABLISH THE MOVEMENT FOR ANTI-GENE PATENTING
1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE UNITED STATES SENATE
2. IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, THAT
3. PATENTING PIECES OF DNA IS UNLAWFUL AND INFRINGES ON THE RIGHTS OF FREE USE
4. OF KNOWLEDGE. DNA IS NOT A MAN-MADE ITEM AND PATENTING SOMETHING MADE
5. BY NATURE IS IN VIOLATION OF THE U.S. TERMS OF ISSUING A PATENT. THE MEANS BY
6. WHICH AN INVENTOR FINDS AND CREATES THE PRODUCT WITH THE USE OF DNA IS BY
7. ALL MEANS PATENTABLE. THE FREE USE OF DNA DOES NOT INFRINGE UPON THE RIGHTS
8. OF SCIENTISTS WHO DISCOVER PERVIOUSLY UNKNOWN PIECES OF DNA AND/OR
9. ENZYMES. ALL BUT THE NATURALLY OCCURING SUBSTANCES ARE PATENTABLE, THUS
10. THE INDIVIDUAL’S DISCOVERIES ARE STILL FOUND NOVEL AND PROTECT BY USE OF A
11. U.S. PATENT. THE OPEN USE OF DNA IS OVER ALL MORE PRODUCTIVE FOR THE BENEFIT
12. OF RESEARCH AND FINDING CURES/MEDICINES TO BE PUT IN TO USE IN HUMANS. OVER
13. ALL THIS BILL WILL PROTECT THE FREE EXCHANGE OF KNOWLEDGE WHILE
14. PROTECTING THE DISCOVERIES OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCH GROUPS AND SCIENTISTS.
15. THE U.S. DEFINITION OF “NOVEL” WILL BE PROTECTED BY THE INSTATMENT OF THIS
16. BILL. THE INFORMATION HERE INSTATED CAN BE USED AS A PRECURSER TO PROMPT
17. THE INTERNATIONAL BAN OF PATENTING GENES AND OTHER GENETIC INFORMATION
18. CREATED BY NATURE, NOT HUMAN BEINGS. OVER ALL THE ENTIRE POPULATION WILL
19. BENEFIT FROM THE OPEN EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION. CURES TO DISEASES WILL
20. MORE EASILY BE DISCOVERED AND THE HUMAN GENOME WILL BE WORKED ON AND
21. DECODED MORE QUICKLY. THIS BILL WILL OVER ALL ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF LIFE
22. FOR MILLIONS, WHILE STILL PROTECTING THE CREATIVE RIGHTS OF SCIENTISTS.
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