Abstract
This Note explains the requirements of the current patent statute and briefly reviews biotechnology and its importance. It then examines the Chakrabarty decision along with its previous and subsequent legal history. Next, it analyzes the most commonly expressed concerns regarding animal patents: public safety, impact on the economy and the ecology, survival of small farms, animal suffering, and philosophical considerations such as the possibility of human-animal hybrids. Finally, the Note concludes that the objections to animal patents are actually objections to biotechnology itself and that the current federal regulatory framework can sufficiently control biotechnology.
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32 Ariz. L. Rev. 691 (1990)
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