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The Myriad Lawsuit: “Products Of Nature” And “Natural Phenomena” – Turning Back The Clock On Biotech To Erase The Future

On May 12, 2009, a coalition of interested parties, lead by the Association for Molecular Pathology, and including researchers and breast cancer patients, filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to invalidate certain … Continue reading

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BOOK REVIEW: Janice M Mueller, Patent Law, Third Edition, Aspen Publishers (2009), 613 pages, paper.

I thought I would take time out from my rants about the written description requirement, and patentable subject matter, to let you know about this important addition to IP education tools. In 2003, Professor Mueller, now at the University of … Continue reading

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Ariad: “The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be!” Judge Linn’s Concurrence and the Abuse and Neglect of the Enablement Requirement at the Federal Circuit

In my post of April 13, 2009, I concluded with a brief summary of Judge Linn’s cogent concurrence, and noted that I would revisit it. Judge Linn does not believe that it was ever necessary for the court to graft … Continue reading

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IN SEARCH OF CHAKRABARTY, “NATURAL PHENOMENA” AND WHERE BILSKI WENT BAD, WITH A GLANCE BACK AT ARIAD.

I was finishing up my recent comment on the reexamination proceedings involving the Baltimore et al. patent, when a fragment of one of the Office Actions caught my eye and stuck in my mind. The Examiner is trying to explain … Continue reading

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