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AMP v. USPTO: What the Parties Are Saying About the Decision

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- On Monday, the District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled in favor of the plaintiffs in Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, finding the claims of several patents directed to the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes invalid as encompassing non-statutory subject matter (see "Round One Goes to the ACLU"). So what are the parties saying about Monday's decision? The originally named defendants in the case included the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Myriad Genetics, and the Directors of the University of Utah Research Foundation. The District Court's dismissal of claims...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 02, 2010 (boomark / email).