{"id":40,"date":"2010-10-29T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ipmetrics.net\/blog\/?p=40"},"modified":"2010-10-29T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T19:06:40","slug":"answers-sought-on-the-patent-eligibility-of-isolated-dna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/ip\/answers-sought-on-the-patent-eligibility-of-isolated-dna\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers sought on the patent eligibility of isolated DNA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A profound patentability question is at heart of the recent appeal filed by Myriad Genetics (\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/patentdocs.typepad.com\/files\/myriad-brief-of-appellant.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">appellant&#8217;s brief<\/a> )\u00a0in\u00a0<em>Association of Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office: Is i<\/em>solated DNA &#8220;unquestionably&#8221; a &#8220;composition of matter,&#8221; or, in the alternative, &#8220;a new and useful improvement&#8221; on naturally occurring DNA?<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbhb.com\/attorneys\/noonan\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Kevin Noonan<\/a> (McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert &amp; Berghoff LLP) notes in his extensive review of the case in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentdocs.org\/2010\/10\/myriad-files-appeal-brief-in-amp-v-uspto.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patent Docs<\/a> blog, &#8220;&#8230; This is the first step in an appeal that awaits a large number of anticipated\u00a0<em>amicus <\/em>briefs and appellees&#8217; briefs from plaintiffs (supported by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Public Patent Foundation)&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A lot remains to be learned, analyzed, and discussed before a definitive and correct decision is reached in this case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is isolated DNA &#8220;unquestionably&#8221; a &#8220;composition of matter,&#8221; or, in the alternative, &#8220;a new and useful improvement&#8221; on naturally occurring DNA?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[23,24,26],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2xROl-E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ipmetrics.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}