Author Archives: Warren Woessner

Takeaways from Chisum Patent Academy’s 2016 Seminars

A guest post from Chisum Patent Academy. On August 4-5 and 8-9, 2016 the Chisum Patent Academy held two advanced patent law roundtable seminars at the historic Mayflower Park Hotel in Seattle, Washington. In addition to covering recent “blockbuster” court decisions, our … Continue reading

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USPTO Post-Prosecution Pilot Program Launches

A guest post from Edward Sandor, attorney at Schwegman. The Post-Prosecution Pilot Program (P3) launched at the USPTO Monday, combining features of the AFCP 2.0 and Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot programs, with the notable addition of Applicant participation in the process. … Continue reading

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FDA Releases Outline of Guidance for Developing Tests Based on Human Genetic Variants

The FDA is charged with regulating “Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Tests,” and has just released draft guidance on what needs to be regulated. (A copy of the first draft and second draft can be found at the end of this … Continue reading

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Rapid Litigation v. CellzDirect – A Break in the 101 Wall

On July 5, 2016, a three – judge Fed. Circuit panel of Moore, Prost and Stoll (Appeal no. 2015-1570) reversed the district court’s holding that claims to a method of isolating “hardy” twice -frozen hepatocytes (as I called them in my … Continue reading

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