CareDx v. Natera: The Latest in Patent Eligibility of Medical Diagnostics
The latest ruling involving patent eligibility of medical diagnostics comes from Chief Judge Connolly of the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in a consolidated case brought by...
View ArticleCAFC Affirms Invalidation of Stanford Organ Transplant Rejection Test in...
On July 18, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a precedential decision in CareDx, Inc. v. Natera, Inc. affirming a summary judgment ruling of the District of Delaware, which...
View ArticleFrances Ligler’s Portable Optical Biosensors Improve Environmental Detection...
Dr. Frances Ligler is a pioneer in biosensor activity and a member of the 2017 class of inductees into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. This New Years’ Eve 2017 marked the 26th anniversary of the...
View Article6 Years Later: The Effects of the Mayo Decision on Diagnostic Methods
2018 celebrates the six-year anniversary of one of the most important Supreme Court decisions of the modern era. On March 20, 2012, the Court handed down its ruling in Mayo v. Prometheus Laboratories....
View ArticleInvitation to Join Amicus Brief in Federal Circuit Rehearing of Athena...
Athena Diagnostics filed a petition for en banc rehearing of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision in Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo on April 8, 2019. Amicus briefs are due...
View ArticlePatent Eligibility of Medical Diagnostic Inventions: Where Are We Now, and...
In each of the recent Federal Circuit decisions on medical diagnostics inventions, Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo Collaborative Services, 2017-2508, (Fed. Cir. Feb. 6, 2019) (“Athena”) and Cleveland Clinic...
View ArticleAthena Diagnostics Amici Warn of Harms to Biotech Revolution Under Current...
April 22 was the deadline for filing amicus briefs with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Athena Diagnostics’ petition for an en banc rehearing by the court. The petition comes after a...
View ArticleIt May Be Time to Abolish the Federal Circuit
I don’t really know why we need the Federal Circuit anymore. Witness the denial of en banc rehearing in Athena Diagnostics, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, LLC on July 3. This denial of rehearing...
View ArticleThe Final Plea for 101 Sanity? Athena Amici Ask Supreme Court to Clean Up...
November 1 was the deadline for filing amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court, which is considering whether to grant a petition for writ of certiorari to take up Athena Diagnostics v. Mayo...
View ArticleMayo Responds to Athena’s High Court Petition: Nothing to Do Here, SCOTUS
Mayo Collaborative Services has filed its brief in opposition to Athena Diagnostics’ petition to the Supreme Court in early October asking the justices to weigh in on whether its patent claims for a...
View ArticleSolicitor General Recommends Against Cert in Vanda, Perhaps Bolstering...
The United States Office of the Solicitor General has filed its brief in response to the Supreme Court’s March request for views in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Vanda Pharmaceuticals. The December 6 brief...
View ArticleIs Unified Patents a War Profiteer?
Is Unified a war profiteer? Of course, they are. But they are only one cog in the larger worldwide scheme of the most powerful multinational corporations whose goal is to monopolize technologies by...
View ArticleHow Misaligned Incentives Are Now Killing Us
Today, like so much of the rest of the world, the United States is faced with many shortages due to the coronavirus pandemic, including personal protective equipment, basic medical supplies, and...
View ArticleTime to Fix U.S. Innovation Policy to Ensure We’re Prepared for the Next...
"The COVID-19 crisis has once more highlighted the need for incentivizing investment and innovation—and thus, for patent laws that duly “promote” and protect such “progress,” precisely as our Founders...
View ArticleCareDx/Stanford Tell Justices the Court ‘Needs to Take Another Section 101 Case’
CareDx, Inc. and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University earlier this week filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court asking the justices to review a 2022...
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