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Science 1 December 2006:
Vol. 314. no. 5804, pp. 1395 - 1396
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135872
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Policy Forum

SCIENCE AND LAW:
When Patents Threaten Science

Lori Andrews,1* Jordan Paradise,2 Timothy Holbrook,1 Danielle Bochneak,1

Patents should not be used to protect laws of nature, products of nature, or mathematical formulas.

1Institute for Science, Law, and Technology, Chicago-Kent College of Law, Chicago, IL 60661, USA.

2Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences, University of Minnesota Law School, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: landrews{at}kentlaw.edu

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