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Round One Goes to the ACLU

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office By Kevin E. Noonan -- Not surprisingly, Judge Robert W. Sweet of the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the plaintiffs today in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, granting partial summary judgment that the claims of several patents on BRCA1 were invalid as encompassing non-statutory subject matter. In an extensive, 156-page opinion (which will be analyzed more thoroughly in a later post), the District Court entered a narrow ruling that was damaging to the University of Utah and its licensee Myriad Genetics,...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 30, 2010 (boomark / email).