Two recent US Supreme Court decisions have created some interesting discussion.
In Maryland v. King, the US Supreme Court has ruled that the
practice of seizing the DNA of non-convicted arrestees is constitutional.
US Police departments have controversially long collected a "DNA database" of arrestees, suspects, and persons of interest.
Thailand Patent Lawyer
In Association for
Molecular Pathology vs Myriad Genetics, the US Supreme
Court was asked whether it was possible to patent genes
and held: no if they are naturally occurring; however an invented synthetic gene, can be patented.
We end with this: if police seize DNA from a suspect who has been treated with a patented synthetic
DNA, is the police seizure of that DNA a violation of the proprietary
rights of the patentee company? Can the arrestee object to the DNA
test as not having authority to surrender the DNA because of
non-ownership?
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