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18 March 2019Americas

Federal Circuit rules ‘treatment claims’ are patent eligible

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has warned against implementing “too broad” an interpretation of the Alice test as it ruled that “treatment claims” were eligible for patenting.

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