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Supreme Court Sends Case On Gene Patents Back To Appeals Court Following Rejection Of Diagnostic Patents

from the rethink-that-please dept

Mon, Mar 26th 2012 8:03pm — Mike Masnick

As we expected, following the Supreme Court's excellent rejection of medical diagnostic patents, it's now set aside the appeals court's ruling upholding gene patents, and asked the appeals court to review the case in light of its ruling last week. Again, this is not a surprise, but it's good that the court so quickly recognized that the two cases have similar issues, and that the appeals court ought to revisit the Myriad (gene patents) ruling so quickly. Hopefully, CAFC (the appeals court in question) will come to its senses and recognize that you can't patent genes. Either way, no matter what CAFC decides, expect that to also be appealed right back to the Supreme Court.

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Filed Under: appeals court, cafc, diagnostic patents, dna, gene patents, genes, patents, remand, supreme court
Companies: mayo clinic, myriad genetics, prometheus laboratories

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Watchit (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 8:49pm

Finally!
Finally, some common sense! The US is in desperate need of it these days...
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- Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2012 @ 9:25pm
  
  Re: Finally!
  but how are Techdirt shills going to get paid if their corporate masters require common sense of them?
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  - Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2012 @ 9:26pm
    
    Re: Re: Finally!
    The poor minimum wage shills will starve! Think of the shills!!!
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    - quo vadis, 27 Mar 2012 @ 12:47am
      
      Re: Re: Re: Finally!
      Like many others your use of the word 'shill' and or 'shills' makes no sense, you really ned to understand words and their meanings before attempting to use them, not simply use them as they appear to become popular.
      
      Thus, you are a 'Twat'
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      - G Thompson (profile), 27 Mar 2012 @ 2:02am
        
        Re: Re: Re: Re: Finally!
        you really ned to understand words and their meanings before attempting to use them
        
        Whom be this Ned person thou speak of?
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    - Watchit (profile), 27 Mar 2012 @ 12:48am
      
      Re: Re: Re: Finally!
      The only obvious explanation is that Google has finally taken over the government, and that their first plan of action is to turn Techdirt into a government subsidized propaganda mill to indoctrinate us in the tenets of Google-ism!
      
      "Don't be evil" was such an obvious ruse! why did we not see it before!
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Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2012 @ 9:25pm

To to start hacking biotechnology.

Chemistry Lesson - 1 - What is Chemistry?
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Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2012 @ 9:28pm

Junk Patent Problem
The junk patent problem will be with us for as long as the patent system continues to exist. The USPTO arm of the US government is foolishly writing out tickets to go to court (patents) which can then be used to run extortion shake-downs on any company which is making anything. Smart lawyers have realised that in order to get a patent they do not actually have to invent anything. They just have to claim to have invented some existing thing, in an obscure and confusing manner, using non-standard terminology. That is enough to get a patent granted.

Being a patent troll is profitable. Patents are also widely used by some companies to harass or block commercial competitors. So there is a huge financial motive to play the game. This has been going on for over 200 years. The patent bar does not even want to try to fix the patent system, they are making too much money from it. Abolition is the answer.

The patent scam has a chilling effect on entrepreneurship, then on jobs. Why would someone take the risk of starting a business, when they know they are going to get hit with a patent infringement lawsuit? Hold your political candidates accountable for job-destroying laws which they allow to stay on the books.
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Anonymous Coward, 26 Mar 2012 @ 10:55pm

anything functional can be patented, silly goose

like that wheel thing? I patented it earlier under 'roundy rolling device which is meant to transport loads under an axle'. When it expires I'll just patent it again under 'device which has a radial measurement of 2*pi which rotates under the force exerted upon it'.

You could buy my competitions carts and cars if you enjoy hexagonal wheels. It's clearly just the free market at work and you freetards are ruining progress.
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- G Thompson (profile), 26 Mar 2012 @ 11:13pm
  
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  Don't buy from this roundy person.. You should all buy my new and improved rolling devices that are in the shape of a Megagon.
  
  Who cares if the perimeter is only 2000000sin(pi/1000000), it has 1 million sides !. One MILLION!!! Totally better than just 1.. One million times better!
  
  Now just need to patent "many sided polygon used to compete with one sides rolling device that might for all intensive purposes look one sided but in fact isn't"
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  - Al Bert (profile), 27 Mar 2012 @ 4:47pm
    
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    prepare to be sued by tire manufacturers everywhere
    because you're infringing on tread patents by introducing discontinuities into the periphery of a "cylindrical device intended for the purpose of rolling"
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    - G Thompson (profile), 27 Mar 2012 @ 10:25pm
      
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      Who said it was going to be cylindrical, or even 3 dimensional.. 4 Dimensions are the way to go..
      
      I'll Patent the multi-verse! Muwahahahahahaha
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TDR, 27 Mar 2012 @ 7:15am

If only the right of appeal could be denied so that these endless cases could finally end and not continually bog dodwn the system all the time. It's because people and companies are appealing the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of the appeal of their case that this happens.
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