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michaelhoffman on June 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Supreme Court: Natural Isolated DNA Not Patentable...

The syllabus is not part of the decision and has no legal effect (it says this at the top of every syllabus), so wouldn't be grounds for a challenge.

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