Judge: Some Claims In DNA Patent Dispute Based On Unpatentable Natural Laws

( November 27, 2024, 8:53 AM EST) -- BOSTON — A federal judge in Massachusetts dismissed some aspects of a patent infringement suit involving technologies that detect changes in genetics, agreeing with a defendant biopharmaceutical company that some of the asserted claims in the plaintiff companies’ patents were patent ineligible because they were directed at a naturally occurring process....