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Published online 3 June 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/459620a
Mouse patent sparks 'uncivil' spat
Academic institutes lock horns in legal action over mutant mice.
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Interesting story, but the statement that Jackson Lab doesn't patent isn't quite correct. A quick assignee name search of the USPTO website retrieved several patents assigned to Jackson Lab going back to 1983. Some of these were co-assigned to research partners or were the products of NIH grants, so the decision to patent may not have been JL's.