Analysis of patent litigation, PTAB practice, prosecution and pharma IP, written on the data behind LexDana.
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A new infertility technique, mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT), has been used to create so called “three-parent” babies. MRT is used in cases when mothers carry genes for mitochondrial diseases. Similar to in vitro fertilization (IVF),…
Ninety percent of head and neck cancer cases are due to squamous cell carcinoma -- a cancer of the epithelial cells. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) affects 270,000 people worldwide every year, and may present as tumors on the tongue or gingiva (gums).…
Prostate cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer among males, but at present there is no standard test for the disease. It is no wonder, then, that researchers at Johns Hopkins University and several other major universities across the country have…
The US Court of Appeals has ruled that isolated genes from human DNA structures are patentable in the case of The Association for Molecular Pathology v. USPTO [1] . USpatent law provides that ‘products of nature’ are not patentable. Do these…
