Diagnostic Method

News from Abroad: Australian Federal Court Upholds Myriad's BRCA1 Gene Patents

In a significant win for Myriad, and their licensee Genetic Technologies Ltd, the Australian Federal Court on Friday upheld Myriad's method patents used in cancer screening for mutations in the BRCA1 gene. This decision will...more

Personalized Medicine Patenting Update

Patenting diagnostic methods is more challenging in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Courts Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., 566 U.S. __ (2012) (Prometheus) and the USPTO’s application of the...more

Top Stories of 2012: #8 to #11

Reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its sixth annual list of top biotech/pharma patent stories. For 2012, we identified fifteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that...more

Protection of diagnostic inventions in the USA - implications of PerkinElmer, Inc. v Intema Limited

On 20 November 2012 the US Federal Circuit handed down a decision in PerkinElmer, Inc. v Intema Limited1 relating to the patent eligibility of diagnostic method claims. In what appears to foreshadow future decisions regarding...more