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Mayo’s Brief Goes Back To A (Non-Precedential) Future

You all may be suffering from Prometheus v. Mayo fatigue by now, but this remains the most important IP case before the Supreme Court, and may well alter the course of life sciences patenting for the foreseeable future. I know … Continue reading

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Classen Immunotherapeutics v. Biogen Idec: Corrected Opinion Likely?

On August 31, 2011, a three-judge panel of the Fed. Cir. (Rader, Newman, Moore) revisited the court’s 2009 summary affirmance that the claims of three Classen patents were not directed to patentable subject matter. (A copy is at the end … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday Patents4Life – We Are 2!

Now some of them are not yet carved in judicial stone, being at various stages of appeal, but the sum of KSR,  Bilski (well, I guess it was more pro-patent than the strict M or T test it replaced with … Continue reading

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AUTM Panel To Address A “Myriad” Of Challenges

Robert S. MacWright, J.D., Ph.D., the new head of tech transfer at the Salk Institute, will moderate a panel at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) on March 1st in Las Vegas.  The panel, … Continue reading

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