Senate Committee recommends against banning gene patents | Clayton Utz

The Senate appears likely to reject the proposal to exclude "biological materials" from patentable subject matter in Australia, following a recommendation from the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee. On 21 September 2011, the Committee delivered its report on the Patent Amendment (Human Genes and Biological Materials) Bill 2010. Recommending that "the Senate should not pass the Bill", the Committee expressed...