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AMP v Myriad American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Genetic Materials

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Will "Open Source" be the Future of Genetic Diagnostics?

One of the effective arguments made by the ACLU in the AMP v. Myriad case was that somehow permitting patents on genes implicated a patient's privacy right in her genetic material. This was also the theme of their public...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Genes and Information: The Problem of Disease-specific Databases

One of the many untruthful positions taken by the ACLU in the AMP v. Myriad Genetics case was that DNA is merely information, like a computer program, and as such Myriad's patent claims were invalid as reciting...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

The Real Impact for Healthcare and Biotechnology of the Supreme Court's Decision in Myriad Genetics

On June 13, 2013, the Supreme Court issued a decision supposedly resolving the patentability of DNA in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics. Immediately, all parties on both sides of the case declared...more

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