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Monthly Archives: December 2015
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
WEGNER TO LEE: A FOUR-STEP PROGRAM TO RESOLVE 101 QUESTIONS
On December 23rd, Harold (“Hal”) Wegner sent Director Lee a one-page Vision of Patent-Eligibility “Trees”, Not the “Forrest” (attached). A very brief summary of his proposed 4-step process might read: 1) Is any element of the claim being examined one … Continue reading
Posted in Patent Eligible Subject Matter
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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
Posted in Non-U.S. Practice
Tagged Australia, biotechnology, biotechnology law, biotechnology news, intellectual property, ip, Myriad, Patent Law, Warren Woessner
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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
Posted in Supreme Court News
Tagged BioPharm, FDA, intellectual property, ip, Jay Cormier, Patent Law, patents, Warren Woessner
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