Morality in Terms of Natural Law - Patent

Abstract

This article aims at studying the concept of morality with reference with natural law as keeping up with the basic ethics of the nature around us: the concept of procreation, rising of sun and the setting of sun, the concept of death and the concept of DNA carrying the genes to the next generation etc. This has been best explained by the case of Lab Corp v. Metabolite in which the U.S Supreme Court had examined the plaintiff’s patent wherein it had claimed a method of diagnosing a vitamin deficiency by observing the level of the amino acid homocysteine in a patient’s blood. The court had granted certiorari and then dismissed it as improvidently. They distinguished between principles of nature discovered by scientists and secondly converting this knowledge into products and explained that discovery only adds to the common knowledge and is free for all , while those when applied to formulate new compounds and products can possibly get patent .