Title The genome defense : inside the epic legal battle to determine who owns your DNA / Jorge L. Contreras.

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Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2021]

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Description	xiv, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-371) and index.
Contents	Who can we sue? -- The world in the Helix -- The gene queen -- Mr. Lincoln's boat -- The ACLU way -- Product of nature -- On the hill -- Speaking of patents -- The power of pink -- We've got you covered -- BART -- Patents and plaintiffs -- Pulling the trigger -- The big guns -- SDNY -- Chicken and egg -- We're from the government -- Splitting the baby -- The patent court -- Magic microscope -- Last man standing -- Déjà vu all over again -- Air force 1 -- With friends like these -- Oyez, oyez, oyez! -- 9-0 -- Aftermath.
Summary	"The gripping true story of a Supreme Court civil rights battle to prevent biotech companies from owning the very thing that makes us who we are-our DNA"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject	Association for Molecular Pathology -- Trials, litigation, etc.
	Myriad Genetics, Inc -- Trials, litigation, etc.
	Patent suits -- United States.
	Human gene mapping -- United States -- Patents.
	Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- United States -- Patents.
	Human gene mapping -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Law and legislation -- United States.
	Myriad Genetics, Inc. (OCoLC)fst01934862
	Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis. (OCoLC)fst00962909
	Human chromosome abnormalities -- Diagnosis -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00962910
	Human gene mapping. (OCoLC)fst00963066
	Human gene mapping -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst00963070
	Patent suits. (OCoLC)fst01054860
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indexed Term	Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013)
Genre/Form	Patents. (OCoLC)fst01423842
	Trials, litigation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01423712
ISBN	9781616209681 (hardcover)
	1616209682 (hardcover)
	9781643752150 (ebook)

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