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Tag Archives: Myriad
Same-Day Continuing Applications are Co-pending under s. 120
The outcome of this question of statutory construction was not really in doubt, given the fact that an adverse holding could invalidate thousands of patents which needed same-day copendency to avoid intervening prior art. Immersion Corp. v. HTC Corp., Appeal no. … Continue reading
Justice Breyer to Diagnostic Test Patentees – “Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.”
Kevin Noonan recently posted an article entitled “The Fantastical World of Justice Stephen Breyer” that demonstrates, via Breyer’s quotes during various oral arguments, his suspicion that the patent system is, for example, issuing broad, hard to understand, claims that lead … Continue reading
Myriad vs. Mayo – Detection vs. Processing at the Fed. Cir.
Rapid Litigation Mgmt v. CellzDirect: Splitting Detection of a Natural Phenomenon from its Application to Yield a Product. Courtenay G. Brinkerhoff at pharmapatentsblog.com summarized the oral arguments at the Fed. Cir. (App. No. 15-1570) conducted on April 5, 2016 in … Continue reading
Genetic Technologies Affirms Ariosa/Myriad With An Introduction By The Sequenom Petition for Cert.
On April 1st, Lilly filed an amicus brief in favor of Sequenom’s petition for cert. seeking to reverse Ariosa, that caused a lot of buzz in the IP community. (A copy is available at the end of this post.) To … Continue reading