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“If Wishes Were Horses” – Roberts’ Dissent from Myriad

After reading Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S.___(2015), (a copy is found at the end of this post) I was struck by Justice Robert’s dissent – which excoriates the majority for legislating from the bench and basing its opinion on “social … Continue reading

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Teva v. Sandoz – “Strange Brew” Boils Over

On June 18, 2015, a divided Fed. Cir. panel reaffirmed that the key claim of a Teva patent, U.S. Pat. No. 5,800,808, was invalid as indefinite, although the Fed. Cir. had previously been reversed twice by the Supreme Court – … Continue reading

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Ariosa v. Sequenom – Novel Genetic Analysis Fails The Mayo Test

Today, the Fed. Cir. affirmed the district court’s holding that the method for detecting paternally inherited nucleic acid of fetal origin in a sample of the mother’s blood was a patent-ineligible natural phenomenon. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v Sequenom, Inc., Appeal … Continue reading

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Allvoice Decision Provides Roadmap For Software-based Inventions

Guest post from Greg Stark, attorney at Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner. In a refreshing break from Alice/Mayo abstract idea based 35 U.S.C. § 101 rejections, the Federal Circuit released a decision invalidating certain claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,799,273 as … Continue reading

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