September 22, 2009

Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services

By Kelley Luckstein

Over the past few years, Federal Circuit decisions in In re Bilski and Classen Immunotherapeutics, Inc. v. Biogen Idec, combined with Justice Breyer's dissent in Laboratory Corp. v. Metabolite Labs., Inc. ("LabCorp"), have created more than a frisson of anxiety in the biotechnology and medical diagnostics community, due the apprehension that medical diagnostics claims might generally be deemed not to be patent-eligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  These fears may be alleviated to some degree by the decision today in Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services, where the Court held that a diagnostics claim satisfies the machine-or-transformation test enunciated in Bilski.

 

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Tags: Business Relations, legal, Prometheus Laboratories

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