Intellectual Property - Patenting Life

  1.Identify the requirements for a patent. 2.Then further discuss: Should a company be allowed to patent a life form? Does it matter if the life form is a non-sentient organism like a plant? Is there a place where the law can ethically draw a line between life as property and life as beyond the right of any person or business to own or appropriate? -Apply legal concepts to business scenarios. -Analyze the differences between major forms of intellectual property protection, and current ethical issues that arise under intellectual property law.