natural-phenomenon

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22-1066 CareDx Inc., et al. v. Natera, Inc., et al. Federal Circuit 2023-05-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 35-usc-101 medical-diagnostics method-patent natural-phenomenon patent-eligibility patent-infringement prior-art scientific-innovation section-101 statutory-interpretation Congress has provided that any "new and useful process" is eligible for patent protection, and that "any new and useful improvement thereof" is also e…
21-209 Huping Hu, et al. v. Drew Hirshfeld, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director, United States Patent and Trademark Office Federal Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response Waived 35-usc-101 intellectual-property judicial-exceptions natural-phenomenon operability-standard patent-eligibility person-having-ordinary-skill-in-the-art quantum-entanglement reproducibility-of-results scientific-discovery section-101 Whether the PTO's varied standards, buttressed by the decisional law of the lower reviewing courts, for determining operability under § 101 are biased…