The original language for patent law comes from Thomas Jefferson. He wrote that patents can be obtained for “any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new or useful improvement thereof.”

These words remain at the core of U.S. patent law.

a. Do they allow life-forms to be patented?

b. Should they?

c. If humans can create life-forms, does that undermine the existence of God? (Religious)