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16 May 2012
IPIC European IP Law Seminar 24 May 2012
Mewburn Ellis partner Jonathan Wills will be speaking at IPIC’s European IP Law seminar in Montreal on 24 May 2012. He would be delighted to hear from any clients and friends who will be there too. Please do let him know if you plan to attend.
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23 March 2012
US Supreme Court rules on personalised medicine claims
In Mayo v. Prometheus the Supreme Court, the highest court in the United States, has invalidated Prometheus’s diagnostic claims under the judicial “laws of nature” exclusion in US patent law, reversing the twice affirmed decision of the Federal Circuit. Whilst maintaining that the practical application of a law of nature, even to a previously known product or process, may be patentable, the Court held that Prometheus’s claims did not add enough to the stated law of nature to qualify as patent-eligible. The decision could have broad implications for the level of patent coverage available in the USA in fields such as diagnostics and personalised medicine.
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