Items Tagged ‘Prometheus Laboratories’
March 23, 2012
Mayo Clinic in the News Weekly Highlights
March 23, 2012 Mayo Clinic in the News is a weekly highlights summary of major media coverage. If you would like to be added to the weekly distribution list, send a note to Emily Blahnik with this subject line: SUBSCRIBE to Mayo Clinic in the News. Thank you. Karl Oestreich, manager enterprise media relations oestreich.karl@mayo.edu […]
Tags: cancer immunotherapy, Dr. Bryan Taylor, Dr. John Noseworthy, Dr. Peter Gloviczki, Fox News, Gonda Building, HealthDay, Jane Belau, Landow Atrium, LifeSource, Mayo Collaborative Services, melanoma
December 8, 2011
Mayo Clinic lawyers will argue patent case to SCOTUS
Lawyers for Minnesota’s Mayo Clinic will appear before the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday morning to argue that patents underlying a blood test are too broad and inhibit doctors from treating patients. In a case that could have big implications for patent law, the high court will weigh whether the clinic infringed upon […]
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October 29, 2009
Mayo v. Prometheus: Medical Methods and Patentable Subject Matter at the Supreme Court
The Mayo Clinic has filed a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear its case challenging the patentable subject matter of Prometheus Labs’ patents that cover a method of optimizing the dosing of a drug. U.S. Patents 6,355,623 and 6,680,302… The invention basically offers an iterative approach to dosing that involves three steps: (1) […]
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September 22, 2009
Prometheus Laboratories, Inc. v. Mayo Collaborative Services
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 […]
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