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DNA and Pricing Patents Fall to Mayo and Alice

By Barry Barnett on June 15, 2015

Screen Shot 2015-06-14 at 11.19.54 PMUnpatentable subject matter

A pair of Federal Circuit opinions last week rejected patents involving patent-ineligible subject matter.

What does that include, you ask?

As Blawgletter noted last year in "You Still Can't Patent Ideas":

Section 101 of the Patent Act allows patents on "any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of

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You Can’t Patent Genes Unless You Change Them, Supreme Court Holds

By Barry Barnett on June 16, 2013

Last week, a 9-0 Supreme Court ruled that human genes do not count as patent-eligible subject matter but that fake genes with some DNA missing may. Ass'n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., No. 12-398, slip op. 12 (U.S. June 13, 2013) ("Groundbreaking, innovative, or even brilliant discovery does not by itself satisfy…

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Barnett is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, a partner in Susman Godfrey’s Dallas and New York offices, and a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School. With three decades of trial work representing both plaintiffs and defendants, Barnett is a master strategist in complex commercial litigation.

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