{"id":4970,"date":"2021-11-03T13:43:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T17:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4970"},"modified":"2021-11-03T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T18:06:07","slug":"alexandra-j-roberts-association-for-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics-a-poem-lexlanham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/03\/alexandra-j-roberts-association-for-molecular-pathology-v-myriad-genetics-a-poem-lexlanham\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra J. Roberts, Association For Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics: A Poem @lexlanham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/law.unh.edu\/person\/alexandra-j-roberts\">Alexandra J. Roberts<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Myriad was first to find the gene\u2019s<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">location, reserve<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">its knowledge, tie up<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">women and their certain mutations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But isolation creates<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">precisely nothing<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">to satisfy this Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Manifestations of nature are free to all men.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Elimination, duplication,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">rearrangement, misplacement,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">deletion is free<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">to all men.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Breast and ovarian cancer, other cancers,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">held together by bonds, breaking bonds,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">severed without magic<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">without translation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Effort alone does not satisfy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">the demands of mutations,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">messengers in the body.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Law provides a stop signal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(cancer: mere side effect).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Breasts and other natural phenomena<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">studied, manipulated, or used<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">are not patentable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Hereditary traits, abstract ideas,<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">ovaries are not patentable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Laws of nature provide a stop signal<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">(her vote: mere side effect).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alexandra J. Roberts is Professor of Law, University of New Hampshire School of Law. She teaches and writes in the areas of trademark and false advertising law, entertainment law, contracts, and law and literature.\u00a0<\/em><em>&#8220;Association For Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics&#8221; is a collage poem: it is composed entirely from words that appear in the Supreme Court opinion in the case of the same name.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The case is <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=18430796342509149206\">Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 569 (2013)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=HedgehogsFoxes\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Alexandra J. Roberts \u00a0 Myriad was first to find the gene\u2019s location, reserve its knowledge, tie up women and their certain mutations. 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