Legal Opinion
Diamond v. Chakrabarty
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 16, 1980No. 79-136PublishedCited by 372 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Burger
We granted certiorari to determine whether a live, human-made micro-organism is patentable subject matter under 35 U. S. C. § 101.
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In 1972, respondent Chakrabarty, a microbiologist, filed a patent application, assigned to the General Electric Co. The application asserted 36 claims related to Chakrabarty’s invention of “a bacterium from the genus Pseudomonas containing therein at least two stable energy-generating plasmids, each of said plasmids providing a separate hydrocarbon degradative pathway.” 1 This human-made, genetically engineered bacterium is capable of breaking down multiple…
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