Recent Supreme Court rulings in Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories Inc. and The Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics Inc. set the “pornography standard of patent law,” said one attorney at a recent symposium on intellectual property law and its effects on the diagnostics industry. Another said the decisions had reduced the industry “to guessing” about the rapidly evolving legal framework.
In general, lawyers who gathered July 22 in Alexandria, Va., for the symposium organized by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)...
