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Biotechnology patents 生物技术专利 Natural justice 自然正义 America s Supreme Court is to rule on the patentingof genes 美国最高法院将对基因专利做出裁决 THE nine justices on America s Supreme Court must apply their minds to the thorniest oflegal questions. 美国最高法院的九位法官全力专注于处理这最棘手的法律问题。 On April 15th they were presentedwith a particularly testing puzzler: should the law allow people to patent human genes? 4月15日，法官们遇到一个相当棘手的案件：法律是否允许取得人类基因的专利权。 The case is the culmination of a battle that began in 2009. 2009年专利之争使此案件白热化。 It pits America s Association for Molecular Pathology and various other interestedpartiesrepresented by lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Unionagainst MyriadGenetics, a biotechnology firm that holds patents on two human genes, called BRCA1 andBRCA2. 案件起源于美国分子病理学学会与其他利益相关方由来自美国民权同盟的律师代表联名起诉麦利亚德基因公司，该生物技术公司持有名为BRCA1 和 BRCA2的两个人类乳腺癌基因专利。 | 
