Review of biotech patent cases trying to determine after Prometheus what “extra” is enough to confer patent eligibility on a law of nature.
Law360, New York (February 25, 2014, 12:47 PM ET) ‐‐ For decades, Congress and the U.S. Supreme Court had assured patentees in the biotechnology space that “anything under the sun that is made by man” could be patent‐eligible.1 This understanding was upended in 2012, when the Supreme Court revisited the question of patentability under 35 U.S.C. § 101 in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories Inc.2
1. Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 309 (1980) (internal citations omitted).
2. Mayo Collaborative Services Inc. v. Prometheus Laboratories Inc., 566 U.S. ___, 132 S. Ct. 1289 (2012).
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