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Middle District of North Carolina Finds Public Interest Favors Granting Preliminary Injunction

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On December 27, 2023, Chief Judge Catherine Eagles of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina granted a motion for preliminary injunction by Natera Inc. enjoining NeoGenomics Laboratories Inc. from...more

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Recent Decision Raises Patent Eligibility Concerns Regarding Certain Gene Therapy-Related Inventions

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This past Friday, a federal district court held that the mere fact of combining certain natural products – such as isolated, naturally occurring AAV sequences and a heterologous non-AAV sequence – and putting them into a...more

Haug Partners LLP

Federal Circuit Affirms Invalidity of Nanopore Sequencing Patents for Failing to Enable, and Affirms Denial of New Trial on the...

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On May 11, 2021, the Federal Circuit affirmed the District Court of Delaware’s judgment that patents belonging to Pacific Biosciences of California (“PacBio”) were invalid for lack of enablement under 35 U.S.C. § 112. A...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad: IP Australia Releases Myriad Examination Guidelines

Following the recent public consultation in view of the Australian High Court's decision in D'Arcy v Myriad Genetics ("Myriad"), IP Australia has released new Examination Guidelines for applications which may be affected by...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

News from Abroad: High Court Rules Myriad's BRCA Genes Not Patentable Subject Matter in Australia

Just over one year after the Full Federal Court of Australia unanimously upheld an earlier Federal Court decision that naturally occurring nucleic acid molecules are patentable in Australia, the High Court of Australia has...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

The ACLU, Working for the Man

The ACLU championed its efforts in the AMP v. Myriad case as being another instance of the group fighting for the rights of the many and the powerless against corporate America and the oligarchical few. In a paradox, it now...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Game Over for Myriad - (Or, and then there was one)

As discussed at the end of January, Myriad has given up its Quixotic quest to validate its BRCA gene testing franchise and has abandoned its several lawsuits (many of which were consolidated before the District of Utah under...more

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