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 [...]
ISP members file Supreme Court Amicus Brief on GPS Tracking in U.S. v. Jones
Brief for the Yale Law School Information Society Project Scholars et al. filed. On October 3, 2011, prominent privacy scholars and members of the ISP, led by ISP Senior Fellow Priscilla “Cilla” Smith, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in United States v. Jones. The group urged the Court to find that GPS [...]
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