The Continuing Saga Of Mayo V. Prometheus

Law360, New York ( February 25, 2014, 12:47 PM EST) -- For decades, Congress and the U. S. Supreme Court had assured patentees in the biotechnology space that "anything under the sun that is made by man" could be patent-eligible. [1] This understanding was upended in 2012, when the Supreme Court revisited the question of patentability under 35 U. S. C. § 101 in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories Inc. [2]. . .

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