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Chief Judge Rader's Views on Patentable Subject Matter - Part I

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

By Tim Peterson -- The Federal Circuit will soon be addressing the issue of patentable subject matter as it relates to biotechnology patents in a trilogy of cases: Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, Classen Immunotherapies, Inc. v. Biogen Idec, and Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office ("Myriad"). In the Myriad case, Plaintiffs/Appellees recently moved for recusal of Chief Judge Randall R. Rader (at right) before the panel has even been chosen (see "Appellees Move for Recusal of Chief Judge Rader in AMP v. USPTO Appeal"). Given the controversy that has ensued, this article first...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).