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James F. Haley, Jr. Ropes & Gray LLP

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Supreme Court strikes down a diagnostic method in Prometheus: laws of nature coupled with “well-understood, routine [and] conventional” steps not patent eligible *

USA - March 21 2012
On March 20, 2012, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc., holding the claimed diagnostic methods ineligible for patent protection under Section 101 of the Patent Act.

Co-authors: Dalila Argaez Wendlandt , Denise L. Loring , James R. Myers, Jane T. Gunnison.