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Natural Products Eligibility Guidance – Post-Forum Comments

Posted on June 17, 2014 by Warren Woessner

Guest Post from Paul Cole, Lucas & Co., UK Readers of this and other blogs will have been aware of comments of mine in relation to the USPTO natural product eligibility guidance. Available here is the final version of the post-forum comments … Continue reading →

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Cert. Denied in Intema Ltd. v. PerkinElmer, Inc.

Posted on October 11, 2013 by Warren Woessner

On October 7, 2013, the S. Ct. denied cert., ending Intema’s appeal of the Fed. Cir. decision that its patent claims on a method to determine the level of risk of a Down syndrome pregnancy were not patent-eligible subject matter … Continue reading →

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Intema Files Petition for Grant of Certification

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Warren Woessner

Following the Fed. Cir. holding that the claims in Intema’s patent (U.S. Pat. No. 6,573,103) on an improved method for determining the risk of a Down’s syndrome pregnancy were patent-ineligible as directed to a law of nature and a mental … Continue reading →

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AUTM Eastern Regional Meeting Panel to Address Patentability Challenges

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Warren Woessner

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 … Continue reading →

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