On Sept. 14, 2023, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied defendant Parse Biosciences Inc.’s (Parse) motion to dismiss a complaint filed by plaintiffs 10x Genomics Inc. (10x) and the Board of Trustees of...more
On Nov. 10, 2021, the Northern District of California granted the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO) motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Apple and co-plaintiffs challenging the Patent Trial and Appeal...more
11/23/2021
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On March 25, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior Univ., No. 2020-1288 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 25, 2021), affirming the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s rejection of the...more
3/31/2021
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The cloud of uncertainty over patent eligibility of patents for medical diagnostic methods remains. On Monday, the Supreme Court declined the opportunity to revisit patent eligibility under its two-step Mayo test when it...more
1/15/2020
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On Jan. 10, the Supreme Court will decide whether it will review the Federal Circuit's decisions in the Athena v. Mayo, HP Inc. v. Berkheimer and Hikma v. Vanda cases. The Solicitor General, at the invitation of the Supreme...more
1/10/2020
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