The Supreme Court has announced that it has scheduled a Conference inSequenom, Inc. v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc., Supreme Court No. 15-1182, to vote whether to grant certiorari in this important case.
§ 101 Patent-Eligibility: Petitioner questions whether a method to determine the presence in a blood sample of a known substance (here, DNA) is patent-eligible under 35 USC § 101 where that substance, as such, is known and not in any event patent-eligible.
Details are included in the current Top Ten Patent Cases at pp. 5-9 (attached).
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Hal