outside of my monetary interest, I certainly hope a company cannot patent absolute and comprehensive rights to a natural thing. That would be like the first guy discovering oil in the ground (ridiculous premise, I know) being owed a royalty by every petrochemical company, and everyone who produces anything that contains plastic etc. Except it's even worse because they just patented something inside of me.

What's that scene from super troopers?
"I'm sayin', if-if you own beachfront property, right, do you own, like, the sand and the water?"

"Nobody owns the water. God owns - it's God's water."

Well the truth is somewhere in between.