Patent eligibility: Are biomedical patents under threat?

There could be dire consequences for biomedicine and patent law as a whole—that’s one view of the latest ruling in Ariosa Diagnostics v Sequenom, which has sent shock waves through some sections of the US life sciences industry.

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