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Jan. 1, 2013
Intellectual Property
The law of patents has evolved over the centuries, but it's still true that you can't patent nature.
Sales of billion-dollar patent portfolios seem to make headlines every other day. The patent market got a jolt last spring, however, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case that posed a fundamental question: What, exactly, is patentable? (Mayo Collaborative Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., 19789Inc., 132 S.Ct. 1289 (2012).)
In Prometheus, the Court concluded that a patent's recitation of routine, conventional activity - such as administering a drug and th...
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