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Prometheus: the Supreme Court redefines the patentability of diagnostic inventions.

Recent patents on DNA & gene sequences - 1 Dec 2012

Kumamoto Andrew, Schmid Cora L

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The United States Supreme Court recently issued an opinion regarding the patentability of claims directed to diagnostic methods in Mayo Collab. Service v. Prometheus Lab., Inc. In this opinion, the Supreme Court held that correlations between metabolite levels in the human body and either therapeutic efficacy or adverse effects are unpatentable laws of nature. It further found that a patent claim to a method...

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PMID: 22812581
DOI: 10.2174/187221512802717330

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