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Originally Posted by gemy  My guess is that they realized perhaps later than 2007, how much the dog genome and DNA testing could really advance human cancer research. Or so I have read in a number of places on the web....
Then they looked and found nobody had patented it so why not them? |
I agree. MARS dropped the ball on this.
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Originally Posted by gemy Also if they successfully replicate DNA strands and morph them into cancer similar to humans, they can test out certain drug and other cancer protocols on that sequence. |
This particular patent only applies to the technology of dog breed DNA analysis. I bet they have other patents that apply to this type of cancer research.
I checked MARS patents all the way back to 2004, and they didn't patent anything about DNA and genetic analysis. Most of their patents are about candies, manufacturing processes, pet foods, and healthy food additives.