Ruling narrows US view of animal patents

Biomarkers unbound--the Supreme Court's ruling on diagnostic-test patents.

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Dominating patents: a view from the bridge.

Despite the obvious values of the patent systems of the world (see reference 1 for a review), there remain several aspects of patents that irritate not only members of the general public, but also some scientists, particularly those iwhose work is dependent on patented products produced by industry. One of these irritants concerns the apparent monopoly afforded by law to the patentee. Another i...

New court ruling may alter the legal landscape for gene patents.

and Trademark Of fice, Judge Robert Sweet struck down several patents for genes associated with susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer.1 He found that they protect information, not inventions, and therefore fail to meet the criteria for patent validity. The ruling would negate most existing patents on genes and prevent the approval of future ones. The suit was brought by the American Civil...

Software Patents after CLS Bank: US – China Comparison

The Software Freedom Law Center said that, in its opinion in CLS Bank v. Alice,1the Supreme Court “took one more step towards the abolition of patents on software inventions. Upholding its previous positions, the Court held that abstract ideas and algorithms are unpatentable. It also emphasized that one cannot patent ‘an instruction to apply [an] abstract idea . . . using some un-specified, gen...

Patents on videodisc a future system almost with us