The patent bar was deeply entrenched in the status quo, the biotech industry had grown up around this practice, and legislation to ban gene patents had been introduced year after year in Congress, and had gone absolutely nowhere.
O tribunal de patentes estaba moi atrincheirado no statu quo, a industria da biotecnoloxía medrara arredor desta práctica, e a lexislación para prohibir as patentes xenéticas presentárase ano tras ano ó Congreso, sen saír xamais adiante.