There are thousands more. Industry will continue to push the edge on what is considered patentable. Seed companies would then get royalties not only on initial seed purchase, but from future crops grown from those seeds. The Hagahai patent stirred deep currents of outrage among indigenous people around the world. The idea that a government 16,000 miles away from Papua, New Guinea could claim for whatever reasons ownership over any small part of a person's body violates deep, fundamental principles of sacredness and sovereignty.
Life is sacred.
Since human and plant genes carry life knowledge, they are sacred. Patenting is a violation not only of the sacred, but often of communal health practices. In a case in India, a company sought not only a patent on the genes of a medicinal tree that grew in the center of a village, but, also, sought to collect royalties on the use of the leaves by the villagers. The entire patenting process in which U.S., European, Japanese, and Australian companies seek exclusive rights to particular genes is heretical in many societies. That knowledge is often old knowledge handed down through many generations of traditional healers.