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9 July 2020John Stone

Trade secrets: an alternative for life sciences IP?

Over the past decade, three high-profile US Supreme Court decisions—known by their shorthand names as Alice, Mayo, and Myriad—have generated significant uncertainty over what is and isn’t patentable.

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