Good Point
The first I had heard of patenting biological material was about a man who had cancer, the cancer was removed and experimented on to create a treatment for that cancer. The argument was whether the researchers could patent the patient's cells and not include him in the royalties.
Imagine the crazy patent infringement cases and licensing scams if DNA bits can be patented like software. Entire families could be forced to pay a license fee because their offspring have characteristics that someone wrote as a possiblity and patented.
After that, why not patent water and air? The patent system needs to be overhauled to allow inventors to create new things without having to pay someone who postulated broadly ideas without actually creating anything.
