Hi!
This was a good post, because there seem to be a lot of misunderstanding.
You can't patent the pure sequence, this is what you said. What does the human genome project do then? Just sequencing and
publishing doesn't keep anyone off from using this information, thinking about the amino acids some parts encode, and patenting it.
This whole thing seems strange: All the biotech was developed with public funding and now some companies should be able to patent certain sequences? This can't work and I'm sure this will
be corrected some day, i.e. only drugs can be patented which use a certain sequence for their effect.
Kajetan Hinner