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19 August 2015Americas

CAFC must end ‘existential threat’ to patents, argues Sequenom

Sequenom has requested an en banc review of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit’s decision to invalidate one of its patents in its dispute with Ariosa Diagnostics, arguing that the decision creates an “existential threat” to patent protection.

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