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Federal Circuit Reverses District Court in Prometheus v. Mayo

On September 16, 2009, the Federal Circuit reversed the holding of the district court that a process for monitoring and adjusting a method of medical treatment was unpatentable as attempting to claim non-statutory subject matter (Prometheus Labs., Inc. v. Mayo … Continue reading

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Federal Circuit Reverses District Court's Finding that Generic Eloxatins do not Infringe Sanofi's Patent

In my June 22, 2009 post, I discussed the district court decision that found a claim to optically-pure oxaliplatin (U.S. Pat. No 5,338,874) not infringed by defendants who made it by processes other than the HPLC process disclosed in the … Continue reading

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Patent Office Provides Slideshow to Examiners to Assist in Testing Claims for Statutory Subject Matter

As a supplement to the “instructions” discussed in my last post, the PTO has now provided a compact slideshow to Examiners to assist them in evaluating claims for statutorily patentable machines, processes or compostions of matter. Ironically,the flowcharts are a … Continue reading

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PTO Issues Interim Examination Instructions for Patentable Subject Matter and Invites Comments

On August 24, the PTO issued interim instructions (not rules) to guide Examiners post-Bilski. I did not see this as a major event, given that the Supreme Court will soon be reviewing the Bilski “machine or transformation” (M or T) … Continue reading

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