Author Archives: Warren Woessner

Should the Australian Patent Office be denying patent eligibility to cDNA inventions?

This is a guest post from Grant Shoebridge of Shelston IP. In this, the first of a trilogy of articles investigating specific areas of Australian Patent Office examination practice, I consider how the High Court’s decision in D’Arcy v Myriad Genetics Inc … Continue reading

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New Webinar Series: Practical IP for Natural Sciences

Please join us in a new webinar series directed to the practical strategies in a new era of patent law to protect IP in chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and genetic medicine. The collision of new technologies and patent statutes of a … Continue reading

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Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo (D. Mass., August 4, 2017) – “That’s all,” She Wrote.

Please read my recent post about stage 1 of this proceeding, in which the Judge in 2016 found that the claims to diagnosing Myasthemia Gravis (MG) by adding MuSk to a patient sample and detecting any IgG autoantibody complexes that … Continue reading

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Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo – Finessing the Correlations Trap?

In The Cleveland Clinic Foundation v. True Health Diagnostics, the Fed. Cir. panel held that a claim to a diagnostic method for determining a test subject’s risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (CD) by comparing MPO levels in the bodily fluid … Continue reading

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