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Supreme Court Reverses In Prometheus v. Mayo!

In a decision dated March 20, 2012, Justice Breyer writing for a unanimous court, held that claims to administering a drug, followed by measuring the levels of metabolites of the drug, in order to optimize the amount administered, are not patent … Continue reading

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Happy Birthday To Me – Patents4Life is Three!

Three years ago, when I started this Blog (or is it “Blawg”?), the hot topics were In re Kubin and the summary affirmance of Classen by the Fed. Cir. Today, along with the looming AIA regulations, Mayo v. Prometheus and … Continue reading

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Supreme Court Declines To Review “New And Improved” Written Description Requirement

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court denied Centocor’s (now “Janssen”) petition for cert. and so let stand a ruling that Centocor’s patents on humanized monoclonal antibodies (covering Abbott’s Humira) are invalid for failure to meet the written description requirement (WDR) of … Continue reading

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Top 2011 IP Stories on Patents4Life

I spent a day or two looking back over the breaking IP news that resulted in posts on Patents4Life. I wrote most of them, but want to take a pause to thank regular contributors Paul Cole, Ron Schutz and Stefan … Continue reading

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