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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rejecting claims for failure to satisfy the subject matter eligibility standard under 35 U.S.C. § 101, in ex parte examination of claims to methods and related computing systems for genetic haplotyping in In re Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. The claimed method is recited in representative claim 1: 1.  A method for resolving haplotype phase, comprising:     receiving allele data des...

Limiting patents granted to drug makers, often proposed as a way to lower drug prices, is not a panacea for achiving that goal

Last week, Senator Tillis' latest literary foray took the form of a letter to the Hon. Drew Hirschfeld, current Commissioner of Patents and Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  In it, the Senator asks the USPTO to "publish a request for information on the current state of patent eligibility jurisprudence in the United States, evaluate the responses, and provide us with a detailed summary of your finding, particularly with regard to "how the current jurisprudence has adversely impacted investment and innovation in critical technologies like quantum computing, artificial i...

Chinese diagnostics firm WuXi Diagnostics raises $150m in Series B round WuXi Diagnostics has developed a series of COVID-19 detection products. Source: WuXi Diagnostics February 24, 2021 Chinese integrated diagnostics developer WuXi Diagnostics has raised $150 million in a Series B round of financing to advance its R&D pipeline and open-access innovation enabling platform, as the firm seeks to accelerate its market penetration in the global diagnostics sector. The Series B round was backed by new investors including Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world’s largest maker of scientific instrume...

To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. If you are new to the field of Intellectual Property, you may need help understanding the thickets of jargon in legal documents and formal conversations. Here is a sampling of some of the most important terms you will encounter (and a few that are too intriguing not to mention). In addition, we have put together a comprehensive glossary that can help you further broaden the knowledge of this industry, available for download below. Abandonment: This occurs when an owner / inventor surrenders...