Michael R. Ward
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Articles
Sound the alarm?—The Supreme Court’s renewed interest in life sciences patents could create additional hurdles across the field
USA - November 16 2012 First, there was Mayo v. Prometheus, where the Supreme Court found the medical diagnostic methods at issue were not patentable subject matter.
European Patent Office finds plants and plant products patent-eligible
European Union - April 1 2015 On March 25, the Enlarged Board of Appeal (EBA) of the European Patent Office (EPO) handed a victory to those seeking to protect plant inventions in…
Patent exhaustion and self-replicating technologies
USA - September 6 2012 In Bowman v. Monsanto, the Supreme Court requested the opinion of the Solicitor General on whether to grant review on two questions: “Whether the Federal Circuit erred by (1) refusing to find patent exhaustion in patented seeds even after an authorized sale and by (2) creating an exception to the doctrine of patent exhaustion for self-replicating technologies?”
Beineke v. Kappos – are discovered plants patentable?
USA - January 28 2013 In November, Walter Beineke petitioned the Supreme Court for review of a Federal Circuit decision affirming the rejection of two plant patents on…
Patent exhaustion and self-replicating technologies: what might the Supreme Court say?
USA - April 10 2012 In Bowman v. Monsanto, the Supreme Court recently requested the views of the Solicitor General on whether to grant certiorari.
