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Amicus Briefs in AMP v. USPTO: Genetic Alliance

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

By Donald Zuhn -- In an amicus brief filed in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Genetic Alliance has joined nine other amici (of which Patent Docs is aware) in supporting the reversal of the District Court's decision in the case. The not-for-profit, tax-exempt health advocacy organization also indicates its opposition to the "wholesale abolition of patents on isolated DNA molecules and their use in diagnostic methods." The group opens the brief by noting that: [It] not only wants diagnostic tests to be developed and made widely available, but also wants effective treatments to be developed....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 11, 2010 (boomark / email).