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Reply to Wrong fixes for gene patents

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Robert Cook-Deegan, Subhashini Chandrasekharan, Misha Angrist, Bhaven Sampat, E Richard Gold, Julia Carbone & Lori Knowles reply:

We thank Tom DiLenge of BIO for his thoughtful comments. We agree with many points, but focus here on remaining points of disagreement.

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Cook-Deegan, R., Chandrasekharan, S., Angrist, M. et al. Reply to Wrong fixes for gene patents. Nat Biotechnol 28, 1243 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt1210-1243a

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