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January 13, 2020 05:33 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/e_8JuFQAGdc/supreme-court-declines-to-consider-medical-diagnostic-patents
Supreme Court Declines To Consider Medical Diagnostic Patents
The U.S. Supreme Court stayed out of the debate over what types of medical diagnostic tests can be patented, leaving in legal limbo companies that discover ways to diagnose and treat diseases based on patients' unique characteristics. From a report: The justices rejected an appeal by Quest Diagnostics's Athena unit that sought to restore its patent for a test to detect the presence of an autoimmune disease. A lower court had ruled in favor of the nonprofit Mayo Clinic that the test wasn't eligible for a patent because it merely covered a natural law -- the correlation between the presence of an antibody and the disease. Justices on Monday also rejected appeals to clarify the rules regarding software patents. The Supreme Court's action leaves it to Congress to resolve an issue that's created a legal gray area for such discoveries.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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