AUTM Eastern Regional Meeting Panel to Address Patentability Challenges

Warren Woessner will be joined by two other well-known patent attorneys,  Rodney Sparks of the University of Virginia Patent Foundation and Hans Sauer of BIO, in Philadelphia on September 13th. The panel will try to update the status of the major issues in life sciences patentability, including DNA and diagnostic methods in view of Mayo/Myriad; methods of treatment post-Ariad and inherent anticipation in the context of new uses for known compounds. “You can’t patent that! Can you?” is a question that is becoming increasingly difficult to answer.