Tag Archives: Alice

Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo (D. Mass., August 4, 2017) – “That’s all,” She Wrote.

Posted on August 21, 2017 by Warren Woessner

Please read my recent post about stage 1 of this proceeding, in which the Judge in 2016 found that the claims to diagnosing Myasthemia Gravis (MG) by adding MuSk to a patient sample and detecting any IgG autoantibody complexes that … Continue reading →

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Exergen Corp. v. Thermomedics, Inc. – How to Flunk s. 101

Posted on June 23, 2016 by Warren Woessner

On June 22d, the Fed. Cir. issued a summarily affirmed the district courts Order that the method claims in suit did not pass the Alice/Mayo test for patentable subject matter. Claim 51 of U.S. patent no. 7787938 is representative: “A … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Us! We are 7 Years Old!

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Warren Woessner

In fact, Patents4Life’s birthday was in late March of 2009, but the earliest posts were short papers I wrote for an IP newsletter that no longer exists. However, the s. 101 storm clouds were gathering even then. One article (in … Continue reading →

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Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Merck – Mayo/Alice Rule Reaches Medical Treatment Methods.

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Warren Woessner

In Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Merck, Civil Action No. 150572-GMS (D. Del., 2016), Bristol-Myers sued Merck for inducing infringement of U.S. Pat. No. 9,073,994. Claim 1 reads: “A method of treating a metastatic melanoma comprising intravenously administering an effective amount of … Continue reading →

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