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Human DNA patent renewals on the decline

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The universe of human DNA patents may not be as large as previously anticipated if patent holders are not renewing their patents.

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The authors wish to acknowledge the USPTO for its assistance with performing searches of its public database to obtain data used in this essay. The USPTO does not endorse the publication, authors or the findings associated with this article.

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  1. Ann E. Mills and Patti Tereskerz are at the University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.,

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Mills, A., Tereskerz, P. Human DNA patent renewals on the decline. Nat Biotechnol 29, 711–713 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.1930

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