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3 December 2013AmericasAntoinette Konski

Patenting diagnostic methods post-Myriad

Patents claiming diagnostic methods that use natural phenomena must recite more than conventional and existing detection steps to satisfy the US Supreme Court’s patent-eligibility standard set forth in Association for Molecular Pathology v Myriad Genetics, the Northern District of California held in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc v Sequenom, Inc on October 30.

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