Can someone really patent a mammoth? And if they can, should they?
created to test hair loss treatments.) The authors point to a few reasons why companies might want to patent de-extinct animals: to entice investors with the promise of future licensing revenue, to stop other companies from working on the same animals, and to make sure they have exclusive rights to display the animal in a zoo or park.
And while we still don’t know if de-extinction will be possible, if it works, it may be profitable. In 2013, the same year that the Supreme Court ruled on the breast cancer genes, three lawyers . That could end up having a lot to do with what—or whom—de-extinction is for. De-extinction could be seen as a recompense for the hundreds of species humans have. Novak thinks that any species wiped out by humans should be seen as a legitimate candidate for de-extinction—as long as there is still a place left where they can live naturally.
There’s also the not-insignificant question of how de-extinct animals would be classified. Would a gene-edited Asian elephant be considered a mammoth, an elephant, or something in-between? Would it go immediately on the endangered species list? Or—because it had never existed before—would it technically be an invasive species and prohibited from most areas?
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