Patenting Life By John E. Calfee Summary

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Michael Crichton in “Patenting Life”and John E. Calfee in “Decoding The Use Of Gene Patents” discuss Gene Patent. Although the authors agree that the test for cancer is too expensive, the authors have different views about how much each patient should pay for medical expenses and who should get the better treatment by the cancer they have. Gene patents is very dangerous, but also very expensive to care for unfortunately. Test for breast cancer now costs $3,000 “Crichton”(441). Now because of it costing so much, they have had six lawsuits by 2008 “Calfee” (445). Gene patent is owned by Myriad in Salt Lake City, Utah. That being said, they're the only ones to care for this type of cancer and also the reason why it costs so much. New York Hospital

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