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On June 13, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. ___ (2013). The case concerned whether claims drawn to isolated DNA and cDNA were...more
The Supreme Court of the United States has now ruled on the patent eligibility of isolated DNA. On June 13, 2013, in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., the Court unanimously held that a “naturally...more
On June 13th, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics that isolated DNA is not eligible for patent protection....more
On June 13, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its highly awaited ruling in Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (the “Myriad case”), unanimously holding that isolated, naturally occurring DNA was not...more
The U.S. Supreme Court decided today that claims to isolated genomic DNA are not patentable subject matter and thus invalid. This decision rendered invalid patent claims owned by Myriad Genetics as well as thousands of patent...more
In a case styled The Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, the Supreme Court is confronting the question of whether or not human genes are patent eligible under 35 U.S.C. 101. A decision is expected in the...more
The biggest concern of the biotechnology industry caused by the impending Supreme Court decision in the AMP v. Myriad Genetics case is the threat to existing patents having claims to isolated human DNA (and the DNA from other...more
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in Association of Molecular Pathology vs. Myriad Genetics (Docket 12-398) regarding the patent eligibility of isolated DNA sequences. More specifically, they probed both parties in...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral argument in Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc. (No. 12-398) to decide the question, “Are human genes patentable?” The Court’s decision in...more
At 10:00 A.M. on April 15th, the U.S. Supreme Court will entertain oral arguments in the dispute now known as the human “gene patenting” case. The Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., No. 12-398...more
Yesterday, we posted a response from Dr. Chris Mason of Cornell University to a recent Patent Docs post and an article posted by Dr. Chris Holman on Holman's Biotech IP Blog. Dr. Mason co-authored an article in the current...more
[Ed. Patent Docs recently reported on an article in the current issue of Genome Medicine which contends that due to the non-specificity of sequence uniqueness across the genome and the broad scope of claims to nucleotide...more
We have all heard the popular adage: "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts." Can we ever say that the parts, when divided, are greater than their assembled whole? In relation to the issue of genetic patentability,...more