SUPREME COURT VACATES FEDERAL CIRCUIT DECISION IN CASE CHALLENGING PATENTS ON BREAST CANCER GENES
On March 26, 2012, the Supreme Court vacated the Federal Circuit’s decision in The Association for Molecular Pathology, et. al. v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., et. al in light of its unanimous decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. 132 S.Ct. 1289 (2012). In that case, the Court invalidated a patent on a medical [...]
Diagnosing Chicken Little
There has been a lot of bellyaching from the patent bar over the recent decision in Mayo v. Prometheus. Much of the fire has taken the form of accusing the Court of creating a new standard for patentability that is so broad and ambiguous that it threatens the entire patent law system. Let’s get one thing [...]
Cilla Smith and Jennifer Keighley file Second Circuit Amicus
Brief for the Yale Law School Information Society Project Scholars et al. filed. On November 7, 2011, members of the ISP led by ISP Fellows in the Program for Reproductive Justice, Cilla Smith and Jennifer Keighley, filed an amicus brief with the Second Circuit in The Evergreen Association v. City of New York. The group [...]
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