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Top Patent Law Stories In 2015

I will try to keep this post as brief as possible, since I posted at length on all of the stories. There was a lot of IP action in 2015 – much involving the Fed. Cir. and Supreme Court’s resolution … Continue reading

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Patenting “Natural Products” Down-Under Post-Myriad

Although the Australian High Court held that claims to naturally occurring DNA (e.g., BRCA1 nucleic acid) were not patent eligible because they were not a “manner of manufacture,” since the encoded information therein was not “made” by human action, in … Continue reading

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Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? To Get New Genes!

Jay Cormier has a new post on the FDA Law Blog called “Tastes Like Chicken: Second ‘BioPharm’ Animal Approved to Produce Biological to Treat Orphan Disease Includes 6th Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher.” He writes: On December 8, 2015, … Continue reading

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Ariosa v. Sequenom – Rehearing En Banc Denied

Not surprisingly, the Fed. Cir., on December 2nd, denied Sequenom’s petition for rehearing en banc of the invalidation of certain of the claims of U.S. Pat. No. 6,258,540 which were directed to methods of detecting and using cffDNA. (Appeal no. … Continue reading

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