Abstract
In the first half of the current decade, the US Supreme Court substantially restricted the patentability of isolated DNA sequence patents and methods of genetic diagnosis through its decisions in Mayo Collaborative Services v Prometheus Laboratories Inc in 2012, and in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics Inc in 2013. A key question for Europeans – and Britons – is whether European law should follow the legal directions in the US: should we also disallow DNA patents? Relatedly, should we disallow genetic diagnostics patents? This paper set the scene for an expert debate on this topic. It focusses on the patentability of DNA sequence patents. The debate was held on 18 November 2016 at the University of Cambridge before a general academic audience.
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