Landmark High Court ruling on BRCA1 gene patent as pensioner wins legal case

By Amy Corderoy
Updated October 19 2015 - 10:08am, first published October 7 2015 - 4:24pm
Yvonne D'Arcy, who fought to have the breast cancer gene patent overturned, outside the Federal Court after it first ruled that mutations in the BRCA1 gene could be patented.  Photo: Peter Rae
Yvonne D'Arcy, who fought to have the breast cancer gene patent overturned, outside the Federal Court after it first ruled that mutations in the BRCA1 gene could be patented. Photo: Peter Rae

A 69 year-old pensioner from Queensland has succeeded in a David-and-Goliath battle against a multinational corporation that claimed a patent over the "breast cancer" gene.

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