A patent is a form of intellectual property. A patent gives its owner the right to exclude others from making, using, selling, and importing an invention for a limited period of time, usually twenty years.
1. Basically , all the newly invented drugs are first tested in animals and by using their cells and then it's applied in human cells . Earlier there was a legal law that pharmaceutical company cannot own human beings cells . But again a court order came and it was modified back to owning human cells for trial purposes . The company should own Person A's DNA by following the rules and regulations required in this process because until and unless we see the effect of the medication on human cells we can't apply it to treat disease conditions .
2. Yes, Person A or their family should recieve royalties as they are providing their own cells to conduct the research . It worths to provide royalties in terms of money for treatment purpose , travel expenses , provision of free drugs etc.
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Please read the article bellow and discuss the shift in the
company's approach to genetic analysis. Please also discuss what
you think about personal genomic companies' approaches to research.
Feel free to compare 23andMe's polices on research with another
company's. Did you think the FDA was right in prohibiting 23andMe
from providing health information?
These are some sample talking points to get you thinking about
the ethics of genetic research in the context of Big Data. You
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what discuss can you make about medicalization and chronic
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