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AIPLA Submits Amicus Brief in AMP v. USPTO

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) filed an amicus brief in the Myriad case (Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office), in support of neither party but advocating reversal. While making many of the arguments made by Myriad and other amici, the brief contains at least one definitive (albeit prescient) rebuttal of the arguments made by the Justice Department in its ill-advised brief (see "DOJ Tries to Be All Things to All Constituencies in Myriad Amicus Brief"). The brief presents the questions of 1) whether "purified, isolated DNA" ("transformed in structure...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on November 04, 2010 (boomark / email).