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Superman Breyer v. Batman Lourie Battle in the Sequenom Petition for Cert.

Since this is an amplification of my last post on the Sequenom petition for cert. in Sequenom v. Ariosa, please go back at read my first post on the petition. I have been arguing for some years that the patent … Continue reading

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Sequenom Files Petition for Cert. After Invalidation of Cff Patent

Sequenom, the loser in “Ariosa,” has filed a petition seeking Supreme Court review of the Fed. Cir.’s invalidation of the claims of US Pat. No. 6,258,540 as an attempt to claim a natural product, cffDNA. While there is no dispute … Continue reading

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Ariosa v. Sequenom – Rehearing En Banc Denied

Not surprisingly, the Fed. Cir., on December 2nd, denied Sequenom’s petition for rehearing en banc of the invalidation of certain of the claims of U.S. Pat. No. 6,258,540 which were directed to methods of detecting and using cffDNA. (Appeal no. … Continue reading

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Ariosa v. Sequenom – Novel Genetic Analysis Fails The Mayo Test

Today, the Fed. Cir. affirmed the district court’s holding that the method for detecting paternally inherited nucleic acid of fetal origin in a sample of the mother’s blood was a patent-ineligible natural phenomenon. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v Sequenom, Inc., Appeal … Continue reading

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