Open AccessBiomarkers Unbound — The Supreme Court's Ruling on Diagnostic-Test Patents
Author(s) -
Aaron S. Kesselheim,
Jason Karlawish
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmp1204164
Subject(s) - supreme court , medicine , law , test (biology) , medical diagnosis , diagnostic test , political science , pathology , pediatrics , paleontology , biology
In Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, the Supreme Court has proscribed patents from covering correlations used in making biomarker-based diagnoses when those patents simply describe “steps that must be taken in order to apply” a natural law.
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