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Patent Trial and Appeal Board Section 101 Life Sciences

McDermott Will & Schulte

In Determining Subject Matter Eligibility, the Name of the Game Is the Claim

In a decision underscoring the distinct standards governing enablement under §§ 102 and 112, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial & Appeal Board’s finding that a prior art reference was...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

2023 Federal Circuit Case Summaries - Intellectual Property: Year End Report

We are pleased to share Sheppard Mullin’s inaugural “Year in Review” report that collects and reports on most key patent law-related Federal Circuit decisions for 2023. This is a follow up to the quarterly report we...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Bioinformatics Patents – Subject Matter Eligibility In 2022

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The increasing presence of data-driven solutions in the healthcare and life sciences sector is apparent from the rise in numbers of patents and patent applications. The number of published bioinformatics patents and patent...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

ChromaDex Milk Vitamin Formulation Patents Soured by Section 101

On Sept. 21, 2021, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware granted Elysium’s motion for summary judgment that two ChromaDex formulation patents were directed to patent-ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. §...more

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer

Federal Circuit Holds Stanford’s Genetics Method Claims Abstract Under Section 101

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

Holland & Knight LLP

Top Section 101 Patent Eligibility Stories of 2020

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Light a fire, pour yourself some glogg (21+) and find a comfy corner to read about the biggest Section 101 stories of 2020 because we're gonna have the hap-hap-happiest time since Bing Crosby tap-danced with . . . Well, you...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

A Patent-Eligible Diagnostic Method Claim

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On Friday I will be speaking at the AUTM Eastern Regional Meeting, on a panel discussing patent eligibility issues for life sciences inventions. My topic relates to what the USPTO refers to as “nature-based products,” but...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - July 2019 #2

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - In re: Global IP Holdings LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1426 (Fed. Cir. July 5, 2019) - The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) upholding an...more

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Federal Circuit Review - November 2018

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Federal Circuit Finds Claims Directed to Tabbed Spreadsheets Patent Eligible and Claims Directed to Tracking Changes in Documents Ineligible Under Section 101 - In Data Engine Technologies LLC v. Google LLC, Appeal No....more

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