Supreme Court Rejects Diagnostic Process Claims as Unpatentable Laws of Nature By Charlie Stiernberg – Edited by Dorothy Du Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., No. 10-1150 (U.S. Mar. 20, 2012) Slip Opinion In a unanimous opinion, the Supreme Court reversed a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit that had held Prometheus’ claimed invention, a process that helps doctors determine whether a given dosage of thiopurine drugs is too high or low, was patentable subject ... Read More...

Federal Circuit invites en banc review of broadening reissue jurisprudence By Jeffery Habenicht – Edited by Charlie Stiernberg In re Staats, No. 2010-1443 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 5, 2012) Slip opinion The Federal Circuit reversed the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences’ (“Board”) decision to reject Staats’s reissue application and remanded for further proceedings. The Board had rejected Staats’s continuing reissue application because it was filed outside of the two-year time limit imposed by 35 U.S.C. § 251 and was not ... Read More...