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Judges and Judiciary

Sep. 23, 2006

Wanted: High-Court Test for Patentability of Subject Matter

FORUM COLUMN - The United States Supreme Court recently put in flux the law regarding patentable subject matter.


Forum Column

By Scott Harris

     
      The United States Supreme Court recently put in flux the law regarding patentable subject matter. In LabCorp v. Metabolite Laboratories, 2006 DJDAR 7853 (June 22, 2006), the court's majority refused to decide the subject-matter patentability issue, while its dissenters wrote an opinion casting doubt on the prevailing tests for subject-matter pate...

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